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Word: defending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be prepared to defend our students and Faculty from the attacks of such outside groups as the Dies Committee, which, if it had its way, would end ultimately in the discouraging of all liberal scholarship and all active student interest in the most important social questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Issues Call for Committee on Academic Freedom | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

Fire commander: "I myself couldn't see the ship." He explained that the battery was to defend the harbor, not to warn ships about mine fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Regulations | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...more likely story was that the two sovereigns wanted to let Adolf Hitler know that they would defend their neutrality, and their frontiers, together. The concentration of Nazi troops on the Belgian and The Netherlands border and the recent tone of the German press and Foreign Office toward the Low Countries made Belgians and Netherlanders fear that both might well need defending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: Good Offices | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...this cost the Mystery Woman her job with him. The Paris weekly Aux Ecoutes charged in 1933, when she was reported expelled from France, that she was a Nazi spy. She now claims that Lord Rothermere persuaded her not to sue the Paris paper for damages, promising to defend her honor in his newspapers. She charges that he failed to do so, and was thus doubly guilty of breach of contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mystery Woman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...unions: "It is not possible without injustice to deny or limit either to the producers or to the laboring and farming classes the free faculty of uniting in associations by means of which they may defend their proper rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Proud Vaunt | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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