Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good of the People" has been tortured and distorted almost beyond recognition, for recent politicians have struck out "People" and substituted "Political Machine." In Arizona today the country witnesses the unfortunate spectacle of a Governor declaring martial law for no palpable reason. The State Militia has been called to "defend" the site of the Parker Dam project against "encroachments" on the State's rights. Had this step been taken before Election Day, a number of motives might be suspected, but since it can have no possible effect on elections, the action must be attributed either to a false understanding...
...light, alert team with a superb back in Les Lindberg, Illinois blocked an Army kick in the first quarter, then settled down to defend a 7-point lead. Army got two chances to score, missed both. On a field so muddy that he had to dry the ball and his boot every time he wanted to kick. Lindberg's punts went where he wanted them. Illinois 7, Army...
...beginning we have had not the slightest desire to bait a magazine so steeped in literary tradition and so encumbered with debts. But since Mr. H. M. Wade seems inclined to issue forth from behind the barricades conveniently provided by time and his creditors I suppose we upstarts must defend ourselves...
Ferdinand de Levis (Basil Rathbone) is a hypersensitive Jew who feels the veiled disdain of London socialites who pretend to accept him. He accuses a fellow member of a house party of robbing him. As the evidence gathers against Captain Dancy (Miles Mander), his friends assemble to defend him. The conflicting ties of race and honor that force de Levis to maintain his accusation compel Dancy to take his denial into court. There the racial solidarity that has formed to protect him ends by destroying Dancy, in a scene whose theatrical effectiveness does not mar its honesty...
...other words, charging those who can pay it with the full cost of tuition, and using all surplus funds to pay, if necessary, up to the full cost of the education of genuinely brilliant students. None the less some such solution is on the way. Few nowadays will defend the old-fashioned belief that a young man gains enough from the moral discipline of "working his way through" by dull manual labor to compensate for what he loses in opportunity for profitable, leisurely reading talking, and listening...