Word: defend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover hands his hat to his official Hat-Holder. Lifting his right hand, he repeats after Chief Justice Taft the affirmation to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. Now President, he reads his inaugural address...
Since Senator Vare was in Florida, still recuperating from the paralytic stroke which he suffered last summer and which, according to his physicians, made it impossible for him to appear and defend himself, the committee in its report merely recommended his final rejection but presented no ouster resolution. To the grim-jawed, vindictive Reed was left the honor and the glory of demanding, one last time, the Senator-Suspect's rejection...
...that has dominated life in the University,--the tradition founded with the college 293 years ago. On the historic grounds of old Cambridge, the student body, led by the Lampoon, are emulating their New England ancestors; possibly they are staging a little Boston Tea Party of their own to defend their traditional and customary rights to eat, sleep and choose their own friends and companions...
...proved himself safe. He suffered himself to be photographed pitching hay for the 1924 campaign and on March 4, 1925, the people let him put his hand on the Bible from which he had learned to read at the age of four, and swear to "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...Jackson '29, who turned in a fine performance against the Indians, will once again defend the Crimson cage, this time against the hard drives of Chase, Clark Hodder '25, another former University captain, and Everett, erstwhile Dartmouth star. The Harvard scoring machine will be given a thorough test by the opposing defense, Fitzgerald and Perry, and by Learned, one of the best goalies in amateur ranks...