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Word: attacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to the case, Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Atheist | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

William Bennett Bizzell, President of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.: "I held my breath and swallowed hard; I tried coughing, sneezing, pounding my chest, clearing my throat; I went to a hospital-but still could not stop an attack of hiccoughing which hung upon me last week for two days and two nights. It would have afforded me small comfort to know that King George V's chaplain, the Very Rev. Dean Albert Victor Baillie of St. George's (Knights of the Garter) Chapel at Windsor Castle, England, was similarly afflicted in Manhattan four years ago, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Showing a decided improvement in their attack and court tactics, the 1930 players moved up from eighth to fifth place in the Class C ranking. The Union Boat Club continued to hold its advantage over its opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH PLAYERS DEFEAT MILTON CLUB IN CLASS B | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Freshmen were without the services of their Captain, H. T. Wenner in the lineup yesterday. Wenner is still out with a sprained ankle. F. H. Ward '30 in the right forward position and H. L. Waterman '30 rangy center, led the attack against the schoolboys. Waterman showed accuracy in his shots when within scoring distance, making four goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RANCY MILTON QUINTET TAKES MEASURE OF 1930 FIVE BY SCORE OF 25-17 | 1/22/1927 | See Source »

...satire is needed to preserve sanity in legislation. At times when crime is unusually persistent, it will not help matters to make even exceptional laws ridiculous. The fault however, does not lie with Mr. Finley of Kansas but with those who have given the cause for so justified an attack. We hope his lesson will be taken to heart by law-makers who fail to realize that theirs is a serious job. Law enforcement is difficult enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAUGHING IT OFF. | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

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