Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the ages, this work should provide absorbing reading for conscientious tourists, many a pleasant hour for those who stay at home. WAR IN THE PACIFIC-Sutherland Den-linger and Charles B. Gary-McBride ($3). What every U. S. citizen should know about the Navy, and how it will defend the interests of the U. S. if and when a war with Japan breaks. The odds are in favor of the U. S., the authors conclude, "provided that there are not too many Americans to ask 'Why?' and remain dissatisfied with the answer they receive." FIFTY-FIVE...
...Hamilton Fish: "As long as our old friend Voltaire has been brought into Congress and interjected into the debate, I am reminded of what he said, not about this bill but about all bills. He said: 'I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' That is the position I take about Mr. Green and I happen to agree with what he said...
Austria, under a foreign-supported and schismatic dictatorship (see p. 20), is the only nation to produce underground rebels with a sense of humor. Their best joke: to distribute an official-looking notice on counterfeit police stationery warning the populace to defend itself against ordinary criminals because all the energies of the police were required to catch political criminals...
...prime exception to the rule that boxing champions defend their titles as seldom as possible is 25-year-old Freddie Miller. No. 1 featherweight. A stoop-shouldered left-hander with considerable ability, he has whipped 19 challengers since 1933. Three times he beat Petey Sarron, a tough little Syrian from Birmingham, Ala. who. at 28, is an experienced oldster in the ring...
When Yeats was still on good terms with Moore he became concerned over an accusation of plagiarism against one of Moore's books, wanted him to defend himself. Moore calmly admitted he had lifted ten pages without acknowledgment. The quarrel that finally broke up their friendship was over a scenario on which they had collaborated for a proposed play. Moore wired Yeats that he had written a novel on the subject, threatened an injunction if Yeats tried to use it. Furious, Yeats got together with Lady Gregory and another friend, ground out the play in a fortnight, published...