Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straightened out later." Meantime, Turkish spies reported that Russia, at whom Allied power in the Near East points most directly, was not so tranquil. Soviet engineers, advised by Germany's great fort-builder, Dr. Fritz Todt, are rushing fortifications in the Caucasus, using several hundred thousand workmen, to defend Russia's (and Germany's) oil supply. Already Russia has mined the approaches to all her big Black Sea ports...
...entire membership of the association, which numbers twelve colleges, is expected to participate. Navy, the three-weapon champion, will defend its title. The other colleges represented will be Army, City College, Columbia, Cornell, Hamilton, Harvard, M.I.T., N. Y. U., Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale...
Captain Jim Lightbody of Harvard, who made a new 600-yard record of 1 minute 12.4 seconds last year, will defend his title and attempt to lower his own record against a field which probably will include Captain Walter Zittel of Cornell and Arthur Madden, Yale's brilliant Sophomore. Harold Wonson, Dartmouth's versatile athlete, who won the mile in 4 minutes 24.4 seconds last year and who was third in the 1000-yard run, will defend his title against Emery Wingerter of Cornell...
...reply to a statement made by a group of editors on last year's Executive Board in which they said that they would welcome a law suit brought against them for libel by any of the tutoring schools, Wolff said that he would defend himself against "their accusations in a court...
Accordingly, as soon as we can arrange a mutually convenient time, presumably not until later this spring. I will bring suit against the editors of the Crimson, past and present, and in the mean-time I will communicate to Mr. Evarts my willingness to defend myself against their accusations in a local court, or before a board of Crimson ex-Presidents, or any other tribunal the Crimson editors name...