Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students at Harvard, stronghold of eastern conservatism, staged a riot last week which developed into a pitched battle with police, tear bombs being necessary to quell the blue-blooded New Englanders. A stolen bell clapper was the only apparent cause for the excitement, yet Harvard put on a fight that surpassed Stanford-California Axe and bonfire raids. Nor is this an isolated incident; similar clashes with police are common occurrences both at Cambridge and New Haven, and no one appears to consider them anything unusual...
William Macbeth died in 1917, but the ideas, the blood of the Founder persist. The Gallery is now operated by his son Robert and his nephew Robert G. McIntyre, as a stronghold of workmanlike, conservative painting. Rotund Robert Macbeth will have no truck with modernists, publishes blasts against such violent fellows as Pablo Picasso...
...Settlements on August 19 told the world that tariffs should be lowered, it was simply repeating advice which had been given many lines during recent years. On April 21, 1931, a similar recommendation was made by General W. W. Atterbury, the learner Republican National Committee man from the protections stronghold of Pennsylvania. But the advice has been little heeded, in part because the man in the street does not clearly understand how and why rising tariffs have been undermining his prosperity...
...guerrilla warfare in Siberia at the head of a band of Cossacks against the newborn Soviet regime. England. France and Japan supported him for a while, later he drew his pay from Japan alone. Once, with 16 men. he drove a large Soviet force out of the stronghold of Manchuli in Northern Manchuria. In 1922 he went to the U. S., spent six days in New York City's Ludlow Street Jail when a Soviet company sued him for $500,000 worth of woolens he had seized in Siberia. He claimed Japanese-British bankers had seized...
Japanese generals and even privates had almost the most fun of their lives last week. It was fun to see Chinchow. the last Chinese stronghold in Manchuria, abandoned by 84.000 Chinese soldiers so intelligent that not even the word "Motherland" could make them pause to discharge their 58 pieces of artillery or to fire their 8,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition...