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Word: defenders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book sets forth the author's theories on a possible area of agreement between moderate liberal and moderate conservative opinions. Schlesinger will defend his work in person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Forum To Discuss Schlesinger's 'Vital Center' | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe girls hastened to defend both their honor and their clothing last night when notified that "sloppy clothes indicate loose morals." This statement was made yesterday by Stanley E. Crowe, dean of students at Michigan State College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Defends Female Sloppiness | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

There is nothing inherently valuable in the lecture system. It has always been excused as the only way of bringing the professor in contact with a large number of students. No one could possibly defend it as the best educational method for groups small enough to be organized as conferences. Such groups, particularly in foreign literature, predominate in Sever. Both by custom and by form however, they are receiving the same treatment as classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seats of Learning | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Last Day. An hour before the deadline Chanis still insisted that he would never quit, and called on his little guard to defend him. But by then the situation was hopeless, and the foreign diplomatic corps intervened to avert bloodshed. Just before 2 o'clock a committee of ten diplomats, including U.S. Ambassador Monnett B. Davis, arrived at the police station to ask for a ten-minute extension. They telephoned the palace, where Chanis was now ready to compromise: he would resign if Remón would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hail to the Chief | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...British defence of a strong Germany against the East and paid a higher price than either Britain or the U.S. for doing so. Schuman will find little support in the French Chamber for ratification of the plan by rating the Russian danger over the German today. He must instead defend the success of the Occupation in disinfecting Germany as justification for her return to self-control...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

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