Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same year with German conscription came the Italian attack upon Ethiopia, which was adjudged by the League of Nations a violation of the League Covenant which Italy had signed. This was followed by armed intervention in the civil war in Spain, and finally by the Japanese invasion of China...
...Latin & Greek were staples of the U. S. high-school curriculum. Either because or in spite of that fact, the curriculum was under sharp attack. One of its severest critics, dynamic Dr. Abraham Flexner, then secretary of the Carnegie Foundation, got the Rockefeller General Education Board to start the Lincoln School, an experimental, "progressive" school. It was attached to Columbia University's Teachers College. Today Lincoln School has about 650 pupils in all grades from kindergarten through high school, is counted one of the leading progressive institutions in the U. S. The school has done many unorthodox things, such...
Tomorrow is the big day of the year for the Harvard and Yale track teams. Yale will attempt to stave off the Crimson attack which at this time last year proved nearly fatal, when the final score left the Elis only two points ahead...
...group of conspirators led by Miss Ann Fisher, comely secretary in Robinson Hall, recently completed the second attack on Memorial Hall in as many weeks, climbing the heights of the clock tower to measure the diameter of the face of the clock...
...Harvard's new offspring has chosen a plan of attack which seems on the whole to be highly practicable. Students will not specialize in technical training for the purpose of stepping into one particular government job fully prepared, but will cover the broader and more fundamental fields which will prepare them in somewhat the same fashion as the Studies for English Civil Service exams...