Word: defends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot allow to pass unchallenged Dr. Fosdick's attack in the Harvard Chapel upon the program of universal military training. At the same time that he denounced the nation's unwillingness to defend the Armenians against the threat of Turkish aggression, he also denounced the plan of those who would put the nation in a condition of readiness to meet such threats. For my part I see no virtue in expecting America to take the field against the forces of violence and disorder unless one is willing that America should be equipped to take the field. Pacifism combined with staying...
...afternoon with a 3-0 score. A vigorous and sustained attack in the first half allowed the yearlings to make their score before the school boys could organize their defense. In the second half the Orange and Blue booters were considerably stronger, and the yearlings were hard pressed to defend their goal...
...Debating Team will be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Harvard 6. The question to be discussed is as follows: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb Plan for the operation of the railroads." Each speaker will be given five minutes in which to defend which ever side of the question he chooses. Half of the men who speak tonight will be retained for the second trial next Friday at the same time and place...
...legislative body by admitting to it a man who has served a prison sentence for treason against the United States government in war time, and whose "ideals" are confessedly unchanged. I grant that the man is probably sincere; sincere people are the most dangerous. Mr. Pond has undertaken to defend a man whose conduct renders him indefensible. J. G. CURTIS...
...city appears before a raucous mob which had not yet commenced violence, carrying in his hand a revolver with which he menaces as he orders dispersal of the crowd, and when this official happens to be a leading member of the law firm which has been hired to defend a negro identified as assailant of a white girl, who can answer for the safety of the foolhardy man? No wonder he was about to have been lynched...