Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When asked whether the country could defend itself, the doctor replied: 'At any rate they will defend themselves, to the last man if necessary. Besides they have a fairly modernly equipped army with flying machines and instruments of warfare...
...American Bar Association, aviation lawyer-lobbyist. Last year the Senate charged him with permitting destruction of papers which it had subpoenaed for its airmail investigation, cited him for contempt. Itching for a fight with his old enemy the Senate, famed Lawyer Frank J. Hogan (see p. 16) volunteered to defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days in jail, Lawyer Hogan appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which last month refused to void the sentence...
When military and naval science were the only defenders of simplicity; humanists might conceivably defend the cultured nebulosity of the catalogue from the encroachments of bureaucratic efficiency. Now, however, the arch-humanistic department of English has put its house in order. Further action should follow spontaneously. One may hope that within a few years an exploration of the catalogue will require no sixth sense but will be guided by a few simple and uniform rules...
Reeding an informal request from University Hall, Tan Sargent, dexterous racquet-wielder of the squash team and intercollegiate champion, will not defend his title in the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament this week...
...have yet to find anyone who has condemned either the essential seriousness or the practical worth, present and future, of the well-known custom of the Oxford Union in inviting government officials to defend their policies before the Union; nor has it been observed, I believe, that British legislation has become any the more "muddle-headed" for the presence of Oxford students in the House of Commons as Members...