Word: staunchest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hindenburg has become a forgotten myth, since he has entered the political field. The staunchest of Germany's militarists, the victor of Tannenberg and a hundred lesser battles, remains no longer silent and aloof among the great field-marshalls of Germany. Today he is be-leaguered by the political pack which helps and snarls at his heels...
Professor Hudson will analyze the accomplishments of the World Court during its short life and will discuss several of the cases that have come up before it for decision. He has always been one of the staunchest American advocates of the League of Nations and the World Court, and has had an exceptional opportunity to observe both institutions at close range, since he was a member of the legal section of the Secretariat of the League from...
...last week. These were Ohio State and Purdue. The single touchdown entered in the minutes of the meeting was moved and seconded by Ohio. Purdue could not seem to carry any of her motions, but stubbornly opposed the Ohio program all down the line. Captain Clayppol, center, was her staunchest reactionary...
People distrusted MacDonald more because of his War record than anything else. But now the staunchest Conservatives have words of praise for him. Premier MacDonald is a great reader and a good writer. He has, by the way, the greatest private Socialist library in existence. He is also a not mediocre Art critic, into the bargain (TiME, July 21, ART). Iconoclast,* who is now known to be Mary Agnes Hamilton, has written a good biography of the Premier. Perhaps it is a little flattering, but not much...
...preferred this sacrifice to assuming the cheap martyrdom of letting them arrest me, because I wanted to avoid bloodshed and mass murder in the streets of Budapest, to spare the country from the worst horrors of civil war"* Nevertheless much blood was spilled. It is significant that the staunchest defense of Karolyi comes from one of his Bolshevik brethern, Professor Jaszi-Jakabo-vics in a most unreliable book on the revolution. Karolyi fled to Gablonz in Czecho-Slovakia after his resignation, thence to Austria, and on to Italy, whence he was forced to go to Yugo-Slavia...