Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unless present plans fail, Mike McTigue of Ireland will defend his world's light-heavyweight title against Georges Carpentier, former champion, in the Yankee Stadium, New York, on July...
Harold Bell Wright, Zane Grey, whose works from savagery defend...
...wished, destroy London and almost every center of industrial population in England. The usually conservative Viscount Grey in a debate in the House of Lords said that unless a sense of security could be attained in Europe, England could not possibly rest content with her present inability to defend herself against attacks in the air. The entire British press is discussing the problem and urging an increased air program. Even A. G. Gardiner, editor of the liberal Manchester Guardian, criticizes France for building up an air force superior to the combined air forces of the world, while refusing...
...were under the impression that they were distined for the Ruhr. Premier Mussolini has instructed th Italian Ambassador in Berlin to demand exemplary punishment of th ringleaders, with compensation fo the victims. The message inform Germany that Italy will not permit the molestation of her subjects an will defend them, whatever the consequences...
...critic of similar stamp who has made his voice heard since that time, but in the present year of the Republic the shoe is on the other foot. Whereas before it has been dangerous in the extreme to knock the existing order the challenge now is for men to defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always does--and while the general public of other times used to cherish the vague idea that everything was all right it now cries with a morbid glee that Heaven and Earth and Hell thereunder are all hopelessly...