Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stimulates the linings of bloodvessels, lymph channels and certain organs to produce substances which defend a person against the disease from which he happens to suffer...
...last month announced: "Our leader [General Franco] has said that no home shall lack bread and fuel. He is a man of his word. Social justice there will be. The only question is how generous it will be. If a man fighting for Spain, although himself possessing nothing to defend, returns home without finding his wants satisfied, he will demand justice from men and from heaven. I am certain that heaven will agree that he has the right to take it with his own hands if necessary...
Last week, a crowd of 22,234-more than twice as many as turned out to see World Champion Joe Louis defend his title against Harry Thomas last month- trooped into the Chicago Stadium. What they had come to see were the international matches between the Chicago Golden Glovers (who defeated the New York Golden Glovers in the annual inter-city championships two months ago) and a picked team of European amateurs. The Chicago team of eight (topnotchers in each of the eight divisions of pugilism) were the survivors of 23,000 aspirants from 26 midwestern and southern States...
...House to put the finishing touches on a job that has kept him sweating since last November, when he started work as chairman of a Ways & Means Subcommittee to draft the Revenue Bill of 1938. Well-informed Taxman Vinson took the floor without notes. The bill he proposed to defend against all comers was neither his committee's nor the much-amended Senate bill sponsored by Pat Harrison. It was a patched up compromise between the two, which the Senate had hustled through two days before without a record vote. Congressman Vinson, who has always tried...
TIME has posited a resemblance between Franco and Lee; let TIME defend its thesis...