Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every generation requires a new standard. This generation in the United States has set up a standard for the elimination of liquor. More and more people are realizing that they must defend the Prohibition Law because in its violation there is danger for all law. If a man can break the Volstead Act with immunity, he can commit bigamy; from bigamy he can go to theft. No property, no individual is safe under the law unless all law is obeyed...
...Blackshirts, you can have faith in me as the inflexible, severe, implacable defender of our revolution. I say to you, defend what you have already helped me to achieve by participation now, even if shedding your blood is necessary. We will begin again toward a second victory...
...obvious sincerity of this book defends it from the charge of following a modern cult of futilitarianism. The restraint and maturity defend it from a charge of youthful cynicism. It is a well documented criticism of modern life and demands an answer. Of course there are several obvious retorts. If the author had not given Cerise, without her effort, every object of human desire, she might have wanted something in life worth striving, worth living, for. She might have found the happiness of life in effort if it had been necessary for her to make any effort. There is also...
...proposal to give M. P.'s free railway passes was attacked by the press. The liberal Star and the ultra-conservative Morning Post joined in heaping ridicule on the efforts of members to save themselves ?70,000. The Post observed: "If this country cannot afford to defend itself [referring to the abandonment (TIME, March 31) of the Singapore naval base scheme], it cannot afford to pay for the luxury of sending politicians to Parliament." Rejection of the bill was forecast...
...Military Science department at Harvard, as at other universities, is established for the purpose of training men to defend their country against external aggression. No better security for peace could be devised today than a nation of a hundred millions following peaceful pursuits but ready to take up arms if necessary and defend itself with the maximum of efficiency and the minimum of cost in lives and dollars. The Military Science department teaches preparedness, not militarism, and in this doctrine it has had the support of Presidents Roosevelt, Wilson, and Harding...