Word: defender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dulles, representing the New York Life, alleged that this litigation had been started in an effort to secure recognition for the Soviet Government by Washington: "It is the Soviets' belief that the U. S. firms involved cannot successfully defend these suits until the Soviet Government is recognized...
...frail French-Vatican relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville, and Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada. The day before Cardinal Hayes...
Concerning the manuscripts of "My Literary Life", or as Coleridge says it might better be called, "Sketches of My Intellectual Life, and Principles", he writes to his friend that the purpose of this work is to "defend himself (not indeed to his own conscience, but) as far as others are concerned, from the often and public denunciation of having wasted his time in idleness--in short, of having done nothing; and to settle, if possible, and put to rest with all men of sense the controversy concerning the nature and claims of poetic diction...
...CRIMSON has already pointed out in previous editorials that this financial argument is the final recourse of all who defend the present status of football. If that status is pernicious, as the CRIMSON believes, then the only way to bring about permanent readjustment is to relieve other sports of financial dependence upon football. This implies an athletic endowment. Major Moore in an interview with the press last week, decried this suggestion. If, however, athletics have a legitimate place in college education, and the CRIMSON is convinced that they have, it should be no more impossible to raise an endowment...
...session of the Debating Union this evening at the Union promises to be more stormy, but no less interesting than was originally, surmised. Although the action of the Debating Union in securing outside speakers to defend the present status of football has been criticized, the statement of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Debating Union published in this morning's CRIMSON would seem to place their action in a new light. Had the choice of speakers been made in an effort to obtain notoriety, as at first appeared, it would have been absolutely indefensible; but indicating...