Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands gave the squad enthusiastic welcome. The first University eleven ran through a few signals, then retired to the benches. Referee Tiny Maxwell went out to the middle of the field and flipped the coin betwen Captains Kane and Aldrich. The Eli leader won the toss and chose to defend the goal at the closed end of the Stadium. A moment later both teams ran out onto the gridiron...
...already possessed". War, that is to say, is an impartial intensifier of what is latent in men, bringing out the good as readily as the bad. The whole point of "Three Soldiers" is the negation of this. War gives scope to some virtues, but who is there who will defend the thesis that it calls out more of the good in man than the bad? To gain an end, it appeals to the bestial arid the savage. It exalts the "hard-boiled", physical courage which is by no means the most difficult and rare of the virtues. The animal world...
...that affecting conditions were overlooked was allayed. The question, also, whether spoiled work was accountable to the price being low or lack of proper supervision on the part of the foreman, was easily settled, for, the representative being himself a workman in the department, was more inclined to defend both himself and the price when poor supervision existed, the final result often proving to be a decided improvement all around...
...French were determined to avoid shelling the Turkish quarter so destructively, but they were compelled to it finally by the obstinate resistance of the Nationalists, who surrendered only when they had nothing left to eat. The Turks said that Aintab was their Verdun, and they were determined to defend it at all hazards...
...University Freshmen had the negative side of the question to defend, and the debate brought out the following main arguments...