Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franco trenches in University City. At one time the Communist revolters surged down the Paseo de Recoletos to the famed Plaza de Cibeles, on which are located the buildings of the Banco de Espana, the central post office and the War Ministry. They were driven back by a tank attack...
...used to point out organs he was dissecting. "A lecture on the liver ... he transformed into a subject of vital interest by ... references to bearbaiting and cockfighting, football and the ballet, and a strange bird in his Majesty's aviary. . . . Then he would conclude with a spirited attack on the fashion of lacing young girls till their waists were compressed . . . and their livers were fantastically deformed...
...familiar New Deal attack on Business last week precipitated a quarrel over a familiar New Deal paradox. The attack: FTC told the Monopoly Committee that the basing-point price system makes the steel industry "a focal centre of monopolistic infection which, if not eradicated, miy well cause the death of free capitalistic industry in the U. S." The paradox: The Administration's dual attitude toward Business-olive branch in one hand, big stick in the other...
...distribution. Natural sciences not social sciences teach the student methods of thought and analysis and give him the tools to work out problems under his own steam. This is not a reflection upon the intrinsic merits of the social sciences as a field of concentration, but rather the attack points an accusing finger at the manner in which social sciences are being taught at Harvard and at many other colleges. It is the methods of teaching that must be changed, not the subjects themselves...
Recently there occurred on the Harvard campus an incident so objectionable that we feel the student body should have an opportunity to express its revulsion. A poster appeared on the bulletin boards Tuesday, which made a vicious attack on outstanding Harvard professors and implied crude anti-semitism, with attempted similarity to the cheap vaudeville of DER STUERMER. Those who have seen the reproductions in a recent issue of LIFE magazine will recognize in this placard a poor exhibition of intolerance and bigotry which is characteristic of all fascist literature in this country. By making illegal use of the bulletin boards...