Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, defend short sales, explain how they had kept the market open in critical times, protest against government regulation...
...championship, became his manager and got him a fight with Max Baer, which Schaaf won. Schaaf, who has won 20 of his last 30 fights, last week went to Chicago to fight William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, who was beaten last July in Max Schmeling's sole effort to defend the heavyweight championship...
Captain Record, who will defend his crown in the 70-yard hurdle race, will have stiff competition from a brilliant field including MacDonald of Holy Cross, Laughlin of Bowdoin, and Healey of N. Y. U. The great Crimson timber-topper, however, is almost unbeatable at his best and is concentrating on his specialty alone, thereby remaining the favorite...
...mile, Harvard is pinning her faith on Hallowell, outdoor champion, who will face such sterling opposition as Coan of Pennsylvania, defending indoor champion, Nordell and Maloney of N. Y. U., Crowley of Manhattan, and Mangan of Cornell, who heat out the Crimson runner at the H-D-C meet last Saturday. McCluskey of Manhattan is favored to defend his title successfully in the two mile and is ambitious to lower his record to a figure around 9 minutes 10 seconds. He is the only two-miler, however, to whom Murphy is willing to concede any superiority. The Crimson distance runner...
...university teaching, Dr. Count's appeal has a much wider application. A Harvard student should have sufficient discretion to judge the comparative values of the different theories presented him. It is safe for Professor Babbitt to expound the wonders of Humanism as long as Professor Lowes continues to defend the Romantics. The student will progress further towards forming a philosophy of his own in this way, than by listening to any one man, no matter how open-minded. But in a small college this plan presents its dangers. There, it is too expedient for an instructor to share the opinion...