Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...described by others before you, the phrase is far from giving an accurate summing up of this great newspaper. LA PRENSA, as a matter of fact, is not "the paper of the working classes," but is the paper of the Argentine nation. Strictly independent and always quick to defend any class that might be subjected to injustice, LA PRENSA has been characterized by the high sense of responsibility of its editors. LA PRENSA is as a matter of fact too scholarly to be "the paper of the working classes," and attentive reading of any number, with its four or five...
...army whose strength was universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever since been cruelly besieged. Reputedly 10,000 Wuchangese have died of starvation. Last week the besiegers came to terms with the besieged. The cycle of revolution which began a decade...
...still, even in the college mind, a semplance of schoolboy delight in staying away from class. The baneful part is that the vacation is so limited as to be practically useless. Even the senior must return for his first class, remain for his last. Yet most undergraduates would defend them. One cannot lose conventionally in a fortnight...
...power of brute force, coupled with complete dulness--and that force--though like the carnivorous dinosaur, its one time proponent, it eventually die, can, like the name carnivorous dinosaur, cause a lot of trouble. One hopes then, and with all sincerity that Tunney will like a good Marine, defend his country against mental eclipse by refraining from establishing a precedent which could well mean the beginning of the Ivory...
...have realized all my ambition, and I will try to defend the title that I have worked so hard for for six years, and I am going to try to defend it as becomes a marine...