Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University as regards Professor Baker's resignation and all that this meant for Harvard as a seat of learning and culture, it is more than disheartening to learn that Harvard's President in his several addresses at the alumni clubs of the University has tried to justify and defend the attitude of the Board of Trustees toward the same question; on what grounds, for what reason?--simply because a theatre for young playwrights and authors would be a useless fixture to the University, while a Business School would be an income bringing and prestige carrying annex...
...force could reduce our Pacific islands easily and we couldn't defend them with our present armament...
...University wrestling team will defend its brilliant record against the onslaughts of the Columbia grapplers at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Hemenway Gymnasium, while the 1928 team will oppose the M. I. T. Freshmen at 3 o'clock...
Here Senator Bruce of Maryland interrupted to defend the services of the French to' us in our Revolution, concluding...
...anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile slander. Once Lord Cecil arose to withdraw his statement, but Mr. Porter would not yield the floor. Said he: "You can reply later." He went on to defend the U. S., quoted figure after figure, and ended with a transposition of James Russell Lowell's famed phrase: "Let us put Right on the throne and Wrong on the scaffold...