Word: bulwarks
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Carefully examined and legalistically weighed, the Irwin Plan is as trustworthy a bulwark of British rule in India as the Simon Report, but it is much more palatable. India, which yearns to taste the apple of Dominion Status, is almost promised that she may presently feel "the first impress" of this apple...
...laws of nations are founded on the heritage of their great men. It is on the bulwark of past experience that intelligent society can best build and interpret the solutions of present problems. The Law School galleries bear witness to men of Harvard who in the past history of the United States have contributed to this cause. It is fitting that Justice Holmes should already find a place of honor among them...
...then Captain General of Catalonia, Primo de Rivera, marched upon Madrid in 1923 with the "confidence" of his fellow military satraps and? it is generally believed?the connivance of the King. His Majesty thought in 1923 and continued to think last week that extra-Constitutional methods would best bulwark his Throne...
...Class One--those young women who peer at the world through spectacles, convex, concave, or prismatic: who wear the good old-fashioned shirtwaist, and the skirt with the scalloped hem line: who discourse learnedly on economics and classical philology; and who face life behind the bulwark of a summa. We know there must be such, because we have heard of them. We have, however, yet to meet...
...Army. To bulwark its empire the U. S. has posted 14,228 Army officers and men in Hawaii, 8,784 in the Canal Zone, 5,770 (exclusive of the Scouts) in the Philippines, 1,012 at Tientsin, China. One hundred and fifty U. S. Army engineers are spending Christmas surveying a new canal route across Nicaragua...