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Word: defendent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Congressman Warren got up to defend his action in barring Negroes from the Restaurant. He spoke for 20 minutes, but while he was speaking the 145th signature was added to Congressman De Priest's petition. Whether it liked it or not, the House was thus forced to stand up and be counted on a most ticklish issue next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Uncle Tom & Social Equality | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...pound classes, where the majority of the men are entered. Last year the small number of entrants made it necessary to call off the bouts in three of the eight divisions. Edwin C. Ihrig 2L, former Princeton star who won the 135-pound championship last winter, will defend his title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAMPIONSHIP BOUTS IN WRESTLING HELD TODAY | 3/27/1934 | See Source »

...Mussolini's manifesto that Italy will defend the political independence of Austria and Hungary will throw European political circles into a state of confusion," said William P. Maddox, instructor in Government, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "However, this declaration will probably ease the war situation temporarily. The little entente, Czechoslovakia, Yugo-Slavia, and Rumania desire to preserve Austrian independence; France also followed this policy, with Germany in mind as the strongest possibility of danger. Now that Italy has entered into the affair the probabilities of Austro-Hungarian dependence upon Italy is greatly increased. The little entente doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maddox Says Mussolini's Declaration Will Put Europe's Political Circles in State of Confusion | 3/21/1934 | See Source »

...secured the confidence of the public in himself and in the University. He has at all times maintained the preeminent value of the cooperation of the great teaching body of the College with its governing boards. Holding opinions which he was always prepared to defend, he has expected others to imitate his example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record of 1908 Has Eulogy of Eliot | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

Like many another native critic, however, Nock is quick to defend the U. S. against "superficial" foreign criticism. "We have the finest things to be found anywhere, and the finest people in the world, plenty of them. . . . But the point is that with us such persons are wholly ineffectual; they have no influence; our society does not at all take its tone from them, directly or indirectly. ..." What riles him is such obtrusive phenomena as book-reviewers, who "have no idea whatever of the classification of books ... or of what makes them so. They also have no idea that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impolite Commentator | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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