Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the material assets of a close alignment with South America so clear and near-at-hand, there still remains the value of several close friends in case the time should ever come to defend American shores. With a coast line of some three thousand miles and a comparatively small standing army, the United States could do worse than make friends with the more powerful nations to the South. America looms great as a world-power today, but with the stead-fast backing of Latin-America she would be, not seem, invincible. And though the present conference be limited...
...from the Securities & Exchange Commission in the form of a summons to show cause why he should not be suspended from all U. S. stock exchanges for alleged manipulation of Bellanca Aircraft stock. Hotly denying that he had been jiggling Bellanca or any other stock, Broker Meehan prepared to defend himself...
Admittedly, the classics have taken more than their share of blows ever the last few years, but logic, one of the classical virtues, can hardly defend the present system. Even Professor Rand, our own Matthew Arnold, would admit that. And an examination in their Latin given at the end of the college course might discourage even the most persistent advocate of this new Caesarism...
...Baldwin seemed to think that by this statement he had assuaged the fears of the House, and Sir Thomas Inskip confided that the Best Brains plan to defend London from air attack partly by means of a "balloon barrage"; hundreds of balloons floating high above the capital secured by steel cables which, it is hoped, will entangle the wings of enemy bombing planes...
...ahead of his net was the score of a long-faced, 38-year-old Iowan who, dressed in tennis shoes, white duck pants and an undershirt, had husked his rows more slowly but with scrupulous care. He was Carl Carlson, brother of famed Elmer, who did not bother to defend his title this year. Carl Carlson's gross of 1,540 lb. left him with a net of 1,472 lb. and the 1936 championship...