Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were under Babbitt, nor did we become more conversant with the great literary masterpieces because of the course than we were before. But all of us, whether we wanted to or not, took up a critical attitude toward literature and life which we were willing to and did defend. Babbitt made us ask ourselves why we were here and what we should think and do. He exhorted us to systematize the chaos of our "natural" thinking. I believe Babbitt to have been one of the most stimulating teachers who has ever held a university chair anywhere. The contemporary world...
Frenchmen, girding themselves to defend their franc and keep it on gold, feel they have need of every weapon. They know that they possess Western Europe's most potent army. Last week their Navy Minister, pompous Georges Leygues, drew deafening Paris cheers with a speech which made British naval experts chuckle...
Bonner's case was summed up by famed Frank J. Hogan who then had to dash to California to defend his oldtime client. Oilman Edward L. Doheny, in a Richfield receivership suit. Most work for Bonner was done by Lawyer Hogan's smart son-in-law John W. ("Duke") Guider...
Promptly Adolf Hitler's loudest roarer, Prussian Premier Hermann Goring, followed up with a blast. He had just defied the Treaty of Versailles by ordering two "police planes" to defend Berlin. Cried...
...Schlageter was no 'hurrah' patriot. He wanted no war. He wanted peace as all Germany wants peace. But he was ready to defend his home and the peace of his people. He became a fighter because this peace had been broken...