Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diligent hear far more lecturing than I. Cogswell hears 8 courses daily." We see George Bancroft, fresh from college, sent by the Harvard Corporation for three years' study in Germany in order to become, as President Kirkland expressed it, "an accomplished philologian and biblical critic, able to expound and defend the Revelation of God." Bancroft was not so uncritically enthusiastic as his predecessors had been. Ticknor had written that there was more "absolute learning in Germany than in all the rest of the world besides." But Bancroft was too fastidious to find the unkempt German students congenial, agreeing with...
Joseph Galvin of the law firm f Herrick, Smith, Donald and Farley will represent George; Arthur J. Santry '12 will defend Ryan. Former District Attorney Bushnell has been active in the defense...
...subject for the formal debate is: Resolved: "That the states should surrender their sovereignty to the federal government." Robert M. Coquillette and Warrick E. Elrod, Jr. will speak for the affirmative. Caleb Foote and Joseph S. Harvin will defend the negative. There will be no decision...
...British rearmament loan without so much as flurrying the market. "There is not a single small country in Europe," Mr. Chamberlain declared, "which did not breathe a sigh of relief when it learned at last that we are going to put ourselves in a position to defend ourselves if necessary and play the part of fulfilling our obligations under the League Covenant...
...Maria Theresa of Austria when he tried to blackmail her with a pamphlet relating that her daughter, Marie Antoinette, would bear no legitimate children. His intrigues became historically important when he helped finance the American Revolution. Although he was motivated primarily by hostility to England and a desire to defend French colonies, he committed the French Government to assist the Revolution, was emotionally influenced by the Declaration of Independence...