Word: defend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pierre Etchebaster, kinetic Basque, world's champion court tennis racqueteer, arrived in Manhattan from France to be an instructor at the Racquet and Tennis Club, to play exhibition matches, defend his title if an adequate opponent be found...
...Originally this was the bailiwick of President Chiang Kai-Shek, and from it he sallied, three years ago, at the head of the Nationalist Army which proceeded to conquer all China (TIME, April 5, 1926, et seq.). Last week General Ho Ying-ching, whom President Chiang had sent to defend Canton, found himself so hard pressed that he adopted arriving measures. The first was to send out river workers and peasants to pick up the dead, bloated bodies of soldiers who constantly floated downstream from obscure engagements above. The corpses were searched for cartridges and small arms, General Ho paying...
Richard Murphy 33 is to defend his national indoor singles championship in the junior lawn tennis tournament on the courts of the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City, starting the day after Christmas and continuing to New Year's Day. Murphy has been coached by William T. Tilden 2nd. In the doubles he intends to pair with Samuel Hayes Jr., with whom he also won the title a year...
...still ask to be told the sense of what they like to call Modigliani's "daubs." And they have been answered variously. Recently an absurd attempt was made to apply the yardstick to Modigliani, to prove that he did not distort human anatomy.* Others admit the distortion but defend it by saying that the Egyptians distorted, as did El Greco, the Italian primitives. The merits of Modigliani, they add, are many: his color is finely schematic; his line is sensitive and delineates the sitter's character with wit and insight; his best canvases show the feeling...
...Government could not prove that the mongooses had been imported. They were bought two years ago for $40 each from a reputable animal dealer; 2) both were males, which eliminated any chance of multiplication. While Zoo officials obtained a stay of execution and the lawyers sought the right to defend the condemned, St. Louisans flocked to see a mongoose. Fed on horse, goat and cow meat by Zoo-man George P. Vierheller, the two martyrs grew...