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...Albany has managed to furnish at least one and sometimes two newspapers which could nestle securely against Dutch welcome mats. Such a newspaper was the Argus, which traced its beginnings back to 1813. Such a newspaper, in the evening field, was Thurlow Weed's famed Albany Evening Journal, staunch bulwark of Republicanism...
Army's two famous tackles form the bulwark of its line. Captain "Bud" Sprague is playing his fourth year of West Point football, and he never fails to be mentioned prominently on the all teams. Bud weighs 220 pounds and is usually the first man down the field under punts. He also kicks off for the team and his toe accounts for most of the points-after-touchdown. Perry, the other tackle, is a 214-pound giant who is seldom boxed in and who holds up his side of the line well. The hardest job imaginable is convincing a cadet...
...perfectly with the Rockne notion of football. Blackwood was a star lineman on the 1927 first-year outfit and has superseded Donahue an experienced letterman in the scramble for honors this fall. Shuler, on the other hand, is playing in his last year of competition; he has been a bulwark of strength on two preceding North Carolina elevens and Coach Collins can feel sure that he will do his part in stemming the Crimson offense, from which a great deal of power and speed is expected...
...eleven States of the Midwest with their 149 electoral votes are to the G. O. P. what the eleven States of the South, with 124 electors, are to the Democracy. They are the cornerstone, the bulwark, among which "bolts" and "splits" and outright transitions occur far less frequently than among the eleven Western States, the eleven Eastern States, the four Border States...
...third time defeated in presidential campaign. Then turning rabidly on wetness, bulwark of the Democratic platform, he made straight the way for the 18th amendment. In 1912 he dominated yet another convention, in spite of furious yells: "I will give $25,000 to anyone who will kill him!", and "Why doesn't somebody hang him?" Bryan's part...