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Word: attacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restaurant sat a Yale man. He could make nothing of the tale, but wrote to New Haven that Harvard apparently had a dangerous formation. The coaches put their heads together, guessed at the Wedge and devised a defense which, after the first half of the game, smashed the attack completely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grioiron Chosts | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...title implies, the purpose of this book is to show that the present attitude of the churches in America is contrary to the framing of the Constitution and its guarantee of religious freedom. The author's attack is upon the fundamentalist strain, running through and dominating the chief Protestant churches of this country--not, he declares, from disagreement with the fundamentalist doctrine, but because of its attitude towards the individual. A large part of its book is taken up with facts supporting this contention. In the course of his discussion he is led naturally to the statement--that we never...

Author: By Kenneth JOHNSTON ., | Title: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. By Albert C. Dieffenbach, William Morrow and Co., New York, 1927, $1.50. | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...plays well the half-comedy role of hostile sheik and would-be bride-snatcher. The comedy is administered by two Americans with a movie camera, but Miss Daniels's antics dominate every episode. Much sword-play, swinging from chandeliers and tapestries, plus the movie machinery dispute the ultimate Bedouin attack, as the masculine hero engages a firing-squad. The picture is well produced and the photography is excellent, and the hero-heroine combines a mild Valentino and Fairbanks quite successfully...

Author: By F. T. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...certainly to be hoped the American nation will rise up to condemn such unwarranted attack upon a defenseless man and force the book's retirement from circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unwarranted Attack | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Bell was kicked in the side in the Pennsylvania game and his slow recovery has been hampered by a bad cold and an attack of indigestion. Douglas, in much the same situation, is being hindered in his recovery from minor hurts by a cold. Both of these players should be ready for the Yale contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELL AND DOUGLAS JOIN CROSBY ON SICK LIST | 11/11/1927 | See Source »

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