Word: onslaught
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Rear Admiral Magruder had filed no copy of "The Navy and Economy" with Secretary Wilbur. So newspapers, which dearly love a fight, had resort to "Sic 'em" headlines. They blared: "ADMIRAL'S BLAST DISTURBS WILBUR . . . ASSAILS NAVY COSTS . . . ONSLAUGHT . . . MAY BRING DISCIPLINARY MOVE . . . UNDER FIRE FROM OFFICIALS...
...Legislature could not have foreseen, when it framed the state law on vandalism, such a spectacular achievement as Vandal Healy's with bone and bottles. The vandalism law, said the judge, should be stiffened to protect art owners. One George Tiernan, drinking companion of Vandal Healy during his onslaught in the Lihme apartment, was discharged by the court, having been cleared, by Vandal Healy's confession, of any active complicity...
...pitching ace, to face Captain Isadore Zarakov '27 and his followers in the contest today. Robinson has enjoyed a phenominal season to date. Of the 14 games won by the Nash-coached aggregation, the stellar boxman has turned in 11 triumphs, and only once has he fallen before the onslaught of opposing batsmen...
...there was no Mary, no lamb, there might not have even been a May-flower, a Plymouth Rock, a Jonah, a, may one suggest it, a purple window. Tradition wavered before the onslaught of science. And then came sanity. For this morning the slowest wits of Boston had realized the truth. The Athenaeum had merely played a joke with its story about the non-existence of Mary. A great, great, great etc, grandson of the lamb had told the truth. He had a picture of his ancestors. And there was Mary right beside him. The sun shines once more...
...University Second baseball team fell before the onslaught of the St. John's Preparatory School team of Dancers on Soldiers Field yesterday by a score of 5 to 2. The schoolboys touched E. L. Melloy '29 for seven hits, but the Sophomore twirler kept the blows well scattered, never allowing more than two hits in any one inning Carnes, pitching for the visitors, did an artistic job on the mound holding the second team to three scattered hits...