Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Harvard speakers are again defending the negative they will have a new plan of attack in the forensic battle tomorrow night. Rowe chose the new team with this idea in view, selecting the team from the men who were retained on the squad in the last competition put failed to make the last team...
Sunday the cause of religion suffered another attack when the forces of the Salvation Army invaded New York's Greenwich Village, to convert the wayward inhabitants. The attacking army consisted of a single old gentleman armed with an umbrella. When the band played "Abide With Me", he refused, and shouting, "I don't believe in religion of any sort," belabored the commanding Major about the head with his weapon. In this instance, the temerity of revivalism in attempting to usurp the place where so many lost causes have died in peace may be criticized. But no one can but commend...
Second in the U. S. command was Lieutenant Moses Gould. As the Captain fell, the Lieutenant, though wounded, rallied his men and rushed them forward out of the trap onto an open plain beyond. There they successfully repelled an attack by the Sandino forces, drove them into the forest where they disappeared like old-time Red Indians...
...elevens were undefeated. He died in 1926 and, true to his dying wish, his ashes were scattered over the Memorial Stadium at Berkeley. Last week a players' bench was unveiled and dedicated to "Andy" Smith. Pennsylvania sent its eleven to the dedication; grieved to hear that the Californian attack, led by Brick Marcus who plays football in specially guarded eyeglasses, was irresistible. California 27, Penn...
Through the windows of bootlegging, murder, general crime, the Scranton Sun (W. H. Hallstead, II, publisher) has been for some months tossing editorial bombs. Nearby shanty towns were special targets for attack. Wide-awake criminals and sleepy municipal destroyers were flayed valiantly. Criminals found paths of their pravity hindered...