Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battle of wheat" (TIME, Oct. 24), Premier Benito Mussolini ordered a "national rice day" for Nov. 1. Apparently, on that day all good Italians must live like Chinese-on rice. For the edification of the spaghetti-eating populace, Il Duce explained that rice day was in reality a supporting attack in the "battle of wheat," which is being fought to make Italy a cereally self-sufficient country, by reducing the imports of that grain. Rice, he went on, can be raised in Italy on large tracts of land now available...
...picking a subject of timely and intense student interest such as the football debate of two years ago. Enthusiasm was generated here by the presence of speakers, whose prominence in undergraduate affairs and information on the subject, added some zest to the occasion. The second successful method of attack has been to invite an expert or widely known speaker from the outside, whose appearance alone is sufficient to draw the crowd. The latter procedure, while of considerable value in itself, has proved a weakening influence on the primary purpose of the Union. Members have been awed by a flow...
...defense against wide, sweeping end runs such as those used by Marsters and Lane against the Crimson last Saturday, will no doubt come in for considerable attention, as will also the problem of working out a plan of secondary defense which will prove adequate against a passing attack and open running plays...
...pupils. What has become of their work? Nearly all of it has been attributed to Rembrandt. . . . About 50 years ago the great modern appreciation of Rembrandt began and with it came the tendency to attribute to Rembrandt personally all works of his school. ... It is not my purpose to attack collectors or art dealers or anybody else. . . ." Not to be confused with Professor Henry van Dyke of Prince ton, Professor John C. Van Dyke, 71, has been on the Rutgers faculty since 1889. Careful, deliberate, scholarly, he has published besides his works on Rembrandt an able History of Painting...
...McAvoy, Dartmouth end, added that "Harvard had a powerful line that followed the ball unusually well, but the score shows the difference in methods of offense. Harvard's plug-a-way style could not possibly net the same yardage as Dartmouth's varied offensive attack," McAvoy seconded MacPhail's praise of the Harvard center, but declined to comment upon the work of the Crimson ends...