Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Stone, on the other hand, was handicapped by a mass of economic policy which had not worked out well. He felt it necessary to defend the Board's past. He justified its price-pegging as an emergency operation which averted "an incalculable economic catastrophe." He reiterated explanations of the Board's announcement fortnight ago that it would not peg prices on the 1931 wheat crop (TIME, March 30). He said that what the Board did with its enormous wheat holdings depended largely on how much the farmers reduced planting. He hammered away at the intangibles of co-operative action...
Stories of the brutality with which he has been accused of receiving German delegates to the Armistice, Marshal Foch did not trouble to deny or defend. Metic- ulously he described the details of that fateful meeting on a railway siding in the forest of Compiegne?in the third person. The last ten years of the Marshal's life, he dismissed in one sentence, the last in the book...
Outstanding favorite to win his division is D. D. Carrick 31, who will box in the unlimited class. He is a former Canadian Olympic star and won the University championship last year in both the unlimited and the 175-pound classes. Rafael Torres will be defending champion in the 160-pound division and will also box in the 175. In the 135-pound class P. H. Lord '33 will defend his title, and will have opposing him G. H. Nawn '33, last year's runner...
...hope both for the universities and for the religion of the future than we can see in the action of a corporation that would build an unneeded chapel in the midst of a living university, or in the ideas of a great newspaper that finds it possible to defend such a waste provided only that the proposed building is "beautiful...
...forwards, if you find it worth the trouble, the Lampoon's flattery is a peculiarly perfect art in which subtlety is omitted. Unless the Inklings editor uses Skrip ink, the stains he has gotten on his ibis feet are not the kind that wash out easily. We do not defend the Vagabond or know whether or not he strays into the Radcliffe yard in search of romance, but if romanticism affirmative or negative at Radcliffe be blameworthy, the Lampoon may be blamed for expecting realism in the CRIMSON. Nor do we encourage any quest for classicism in the Lampoon. --Radcliffe...