Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January morning, the Blue Fleet, under Admiral S. S. Robinson, reached the southern ( Pacific) entrance of the Canal. Major General S. D. Sturgis, in charge of the Canal's defense, concentrated his force of 9,000 men to defend the northern entrance, but only the more obvious points of attack could be protected and only a small fraction of the guns manned...
...committee to select the American team to defend the International Challenge Cup against invading Britishers, in September is: Devereux Milburn, Chairman, Robert E. Strawbridge, Sr., W. A. Harriman, Harry Payne Whitney, Louis E. Stoddard...
...Golf Champion: "From Harvard, where I am a student, I journeyed to Manhattan to attend the annual dinner of the U. S. Golf Association. As a guest of honor, I was given an ovation. I announced that I would be on hand next Summer at Oakland Hills, Calif., to defend my title...
...more than one sport have led to serious criticism on the part of graduates and of undergraduates of the way things were being carried on--criticism which has fallen in the last analysis on the shoulders of the Graduate Advisory Committees. It would be irrelevant at this time to defend or attack this criticism and the events which elicited it. But it is certain that the critics--and perhaps also, at times, the committees attacked and the Athletic Committee itself--have forgotten that after all the graduate Advisory Committees are merely representatives of the more powerful and more central University...
...points M. Poincaré's speech was almost defiant in tone. Said he: "If tomorrow we have to defend our security, we will not have to wait the good pleasure of any one. . . . Our security is above all assured by consolidation of the territories which we occupy. As long as Germany does not show herself pacific, we will remain on our guard. As long as the Treaty has not been entirely fulfilled, we will not abandon the left bank of the Rhine. . . . We would have liked to have had the conference of Ambassadors demand at once either extradition...