Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since any riot whatsoever may be termed a breach of the peace and undergraduates who indulge in them take the inescapable risk of running afoul of the law as well as the college authorities, it is evident that riots are an unprofitable way of spending a spring evening, and often lead the innocent student to unforeseen and disastrous ends. But, compared to riots that occur during strikes, and communist battles every May day, a student "riot" can hardly be called a serious affair. Despite several gallons of water spread over the streets of Cambridge, and a few parking signs transferred...
After lengthy discussion, with Leavitt S. White '37 and Joseph Kennedy, Jr. '38 dissenting, the Council decided that no suggestion of a breach of academic freedom could be entertained but that the dismissal of Sweezy and Walsh does give rise to serious problems of interest to the undergraduate, problems which should be investigated an reported upon either this spring or next year...
...through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons of the puffy paste were poured into the breach and the flow of invading water shortly ceased...
...munitions, Beaumarchais said nothing about the money, arranged instead through a dummy company of his own to exchange munitions for tobacco. Paine refused to believe Deane's story, called him a "plodding, plotting, cringing mercenary," and Congress got rid of Paine to avoid exposing France's breach of treaty with England over the loan...
...Strong continued, and she only mirrored what she was hearing in Moscow in 1925: "When the hour for action arrived, many of the Old Bolsheviks who had been Lenin's adherents for years wished to postpone the decisive blow. Trotsky, the new recruit, stepped into the breach and made the Revolution with Lenin. . . . Trotsky built an army out of worse than nothing; out of demoralized deserters who had determined never to fight again. . . . Trotsky is still today [1925] after endless attacks, the most popular and significant figure in the land...