Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candid forecaster, Alcorn scored well. The third of the Senate seats open this year were last filled in the piping Eisenhower year of 1952. Republicans, now a one-vote minority and short of coattails, have 21 seats to defend, while the Democrats risk only 13-six of them safe in one-party Southern States. But since a party chairman is supposed to talk like a combination coach and cheerleader, Alcorn sounded treasonably candid to the faithful...
Tomorrow, the Freshmen defend their undefeated record against Brown with Wally Cook slated to do the pitching...
...called the Egyptian Dragons, had armed themselves with knives, a machete, a heavy dog chain, sticks, pipes and garrison belts, slipped into the park looking for members of a rival gang. They found no rivals; only the Farmer boy and a friend. Neither belonged to any gang. Unable to defend himself, Michael Farmer fell under stabs, kicks, stomps and blows...
Professors, moreover, are somewhat uncomfortable when called upon to defend this rite of Spring whereby graders are generally anonymous, grades frequently secret, and theses oftimes hidden. One traditional explanation is proferred by several uneasy English professors who recall that once upon a time an undergraduate grabbed one of their colleagues by the lapels and demanded some sort of satisfaction for an obvious injustice. Each department has a favorite explanation of its own, but professors are usually agreed that the necessity of having to explain, or even defend, a grade is an upsetting procedure...
...defend Prof. Tillich from the misinterpretations which have appeared in a number of CRIMSON articles, Mr. Bartley's included, is unnecessary. Those who have heard him or read his works know that he shares with the other members of the faculty of the Divinity School and of the University at large an abiding loyalty to critical scholarship. The CRIMSON might do well in the future to set aside its objections to him on religious or philosophical grounds when it purports to take the measure...