Word: bulwarks
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...certainly not complain of our prospects in this branch of athletics, but we must not be so short-sighted as to expect that we can claim the prize without taking thought of the future. Some of our best players will go out with '88 and although '89 is a bulwark of strength we must not depend on her too much...
...literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters, and was subjected to endless variations in artistic handling. The Judgment of Paris was also a favorite subject in every period, although the art-types were very different in the archaic age from those...
...Princetonian considers "pure orthodoxy a bulwark" against the decay of the college...
...happiness and prosperity. The delegation of students left much impressed with the excellent management and the generous courtesy of the Willimantic Company. The Yale News devoted a page of its issue to a glowing description of the trip and all seemed lovely. Yale was henceforth to be the bulwark of protection and Prof. Sumner had lost his profession. But by and by a cloud arose on the horizon. The protectionists had been too fast in drawing their conclusions. It seems that there is one man left at Yale besides Prof. Sumner who remains unconvinced, and he has the bad taste...
...complaints about the unpleasant surroundings at the late breakfast table. Every time a man is unfortunate enough to sleep past nine o'clock, he is obliged to breakfast amidst sweepings and dustings and scrubbings, whose general character is not appetizing, to say the least. He is surrounded by a bulwark of chairs piled upon the surrounding tables, and is serenaded by the clatter of plates and hardware. Now all this might be obviated with very little difficulty. Why not have the late breakfast table in the little side-room corresponding to the auditor's room? To be sure, this room...