Word: defend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test of the theories of Lenin as well as of the practices of Stalin, of the hold that socialism-or of a social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains for the system that gave rise to them...
...plan his career, World's Champion Dempsey might have been just another pug. When Jim Farley crossed the continent to attend the Elks convention in Seattle eight years ago, Frank Roosevelt was just another Governor. When Jim Farley crossed again in 1936, it was to help his champion defend his title. When he started out once more last week in his non-rumpling alpaca traveling suit, Jim Farley was looking to see who could next be champion...
...have taken what military measures we consider necessary. We are not thinking of reducing but rather of increasing them. . . . Whatever may be the diversity and complexity of international problems, there is in reality only one issue in Europe today-thatof domination or collaboration. . . . We know what we must defend-our fatherland and our liberties, our beliefs, and our ideals of human dignity...
...Harvard Flying Club will defend its New England and Middle Atlantic championship at a meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Flying Club to be held at New Haven on the 20th and 21st...
...answer angry charges from Opposition M. P.s that he had been "dilatory" in seeking a tie-up with the Soviet Union. Most pugnacious was peppery old David Lloyd George, Wartime Prime Minister, who wanted to know if Britain's Army chiefs had advised the Government that Britain could defend the independence of Poland and Rumania, Britain's new allies, without the aid of Soviet Russia. Said he succinctly...