Word: bulwarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simplicity of the oldfashioned, truly American family circle, and to stop a lot of this uplift gush, this indiscriminate spending of money in social and charity and welfare work. In short, while welfare clubs, organizations and societies are meeting, conferring and resoluting, the home and fireside, the bulwark of good citizenship, is left in charge of the cat and canary. "Can we wonder that our children go wrong? Petted, pampered, educated at the expense of the State, robbed of self-reliance and independence, we send them forth as weaklings to take up the rugged path of life for themselves...
...sending men to Harvard every year in groups, while the public school men often come singly from schools scattered all over the country. At present, the private school men are united and elect the class officers, while the public school men, feeling that they cannot break down the bulwark of convention set up by the private school men, remain disunited. So with every advantage on their side, private school graduates condemn studies, and in their desire to be great little men, go out for competitions. Then when they attain distinction in extra-curriculum activities, they consider themselves the prominent undergraduates...
...McMillan if he had been able to play a major part of the Brown-Harvard game. As long as he lasted, he was brilliant, but his early removal with an injury precludes his choice. Lovejoy was tremendously effective on the offense, flawlessly accurate in his passing, and a, bulwark of defensive strength. McMillan, as he played against Harvard, was almost, as good...
...Constitution Day?"Bulwark of Democracy and Happiness." On this day it was recommended that the fol- lowing points be made by speechmakers: "Life, liberty, justice, security and opportunity," "One Constitution, one Union, one Flag, one History." Slogans suggested: "Ballots, not bullets," "Master the English language," "Visit the schools today...
OPPOSITION: "The oath of faithfulness has no value because you have stated that the militia must remain devoted to Fascismo and act as the bulwark of the Fascist revolution...