Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cleverness of the Tigers but nevertheless put up a good defensive fight and in the last quarter twice threatened the Princeton goal. Twice also they held the Orange and Black for downs within their five-yard line. Churchill, Buell, Owen, and H. W. Clark, the Crimson centre, were the bulwark of a defense that kept down what might have been a larger score...
...Crimson Freshmen, with four of their best players on the sidelines, were outweighed by more than 10 pounds to a man, but put up a good defensive flight, and in the last quarter twice threatened the Tiger goal. W.H.Churchill, C.C. Buell, G. Owen and H. W. Clark were the bulwark of a defense that kept down what might have been a larger score...
Personal sacrifice gives vigor to an university. The trick of professional dignity lies in the secret of poverty, which ensures, among discriminating people, simplicity and refinement. The distinction of frugality is the scholar's bulwark: raise it, and he is at the mercy of the horrid monotony of capitalist vulgarity. A professor is admitted to polite society not by dint of theatre parties and champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part...
...people of Europe. Statesmen are following him not because they like him personally but because their people are following him and because they know that if they reject the Wilson program they have nothing to substitute for it that can satisfy public sentiment. It is their one bulwark against the Anarchistic flood...
...very striking manner have the people of Massachusetts once again proved themselves to be a bulwark of patriotism and national support. From the early formation of the Union, up to the present time, the Commonwealth was always considered a leader among the states, not only in its internal organization, but in its attitude at times of national crises, in its certainty to take the stand which would uphold and strengthen the Federal Government...