Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest tribunal of the nation. At eighty-seven years of age he passes the record of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, his ability to see the whole as well as the minutiae of legal disputes undimmed by the years. Many lawyers have found in him a new keenness of attack, born since he left behind the retiring age of seventy. He has never been a didacticist; the law has always been a tool to his hand rather than a monstrous, all-enveloping Principle. He has recognized that the preventive is forever superior to the punitive in lawmaking. When President Roosevelt...
...concentrating its attack in the second period, the Crimson eleven a massed a total of 20 points to turn back the invasion of an overrated North Caroline team in Saturday's encounter in the Stadium. The contest was the second of the season, and as such revealed a development and a degree of power which gives indication of an epic battle when the veteran cadet eleven meets the Crimson next Saturday...
...heralded deception and Rockno like passes which the Tarheels were counting upon to bring them victory over the Crimson were not in evidence Saturday afternoon. Straight running plays and passes made up the visitor's attack and with but few exceptions it was stopped dead by the powerful charge of the heavier Crimson forwards...
...Crimson attack, on the other hand, was a different story. The end runs and off-tackle plays worked for from five to ten yards quite consistently, and it was only when the interferers missed their assignments, a thing to be expected occasionally at such an early date, that Sapp, and Schwartz, playing a stellar game for the Tarheels, broke through and nailed the play before it got underway. Particularly encouraging was the way in which the Harvard forward passing game was working...
...face of the success of touch football there still stands a not inconsiderable impediment. One is not allowed to play touch football at Holders Field on the day when touch football was made to be played-Sunday. Touch football is probably invulnerable to formalization; its innocence defies every attack. Nevertheless, it can very quickly stop being a glad game if it has to be bootlegged to the far corners of Cambridge. There seems no reason why the University playing field should not be available on Sunday, whose afternoon has become the single free time for many who spend the playtime...