Word: defend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University harriers will defend the title they won last year from the pick of the country's runners. Captain E. C. Haggerty '27 will lead the Crimson forces Monday in an attempt to chalk up a record of two years without a defeat...
...Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever I may be, fresh caviar from Russia, poulards from Toulouse and other delicacies. I travel habitually in an airplane fitted up as a business office...
...time to obtain authentic information, apparently suspected that indiscreet Republican bankers were casting aspersions upon Republican protectionism for their own nefarious ends. The President thereupon trenchantly reminded the nation that those who lend money are ever anxious for international free trade, but that the Republican party stands ready to defend those who earn money in the U. S. with its tariff shield...
...restfulness of noonday Appleton. Now they must chatter forth with the crowd or remain to hear the chattering die into nothingness. Perhaps these good people are too small a number to merit the grand chords which once were theirs. Yet that, only a person of little sensibility can defend. Even minor traditions must be flaunted occasionally in public to prevent their too easy death. And this custom of Sunday noon recitals is too good and too worthwhile to die without a very justifiable reason...
Dartmouth trounced Virginia Poly Tech 21 to 0, but fought harder to defend their goal than at any time this season. Lane, who has been Red-Granging through such teams as Norwich and Hobart, was snagged by Virginia creepers...