Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draped a grey shawl of early morning mist. From his Chesapeake & Ohio special President Hoover crossed to a stadium near the station. There a sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
...fact that graduate students in the arts and sciences are presumably preparing for positions in education accounts in part for the relative poverty of the School in first-rate minds. For, in spite of education's noisy acclaim as the panacea of social ills and the bulwark of progress, the teaching profession still lags far behind others in earning public esteem and in drawing men of outstanding ability. Until the profession acquires new dignity and lustre, the Schools which train for it will remain under a distinct handicap...
Equally plainly, Scot MacDonald and the Conservative Party (bulwark of his National Government) believed last week that the risk of social upheaval is offset if not canceled by a strong probability that the Labor Party cannot win. In 1929 the Labor Party, led by Mr. MacDonald with a united front, polled 8.416,557 votes, the Conservatives 8,669,469, the Liberals...
...Daredevil pluck, ultra rapidity of thought and movement, cool calculation and reckless abandon, honor blended with determination- these are some of the demands and features of the great, clean national game. Through the long Dark Ages of serfdom, hurling remained with us as a bulwark second only to our national language in preserving our subdued and suppressed individuality...
...unwavering bulwark of the established order the Church of Rome has inevitably been seriously involved in the political upheavals of Catholic countries. It was impossible for Spain to become republican without upsetting the precarious balance between the Church and its enemies. The violence of the recent attacks on Catholic institutions; however, is probably the result of special conditions in that country...