Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great religious movement impossible. Isolated attempts at a religious crusade. like that which marked the rise of Islam, may succeed temporarily. The Mahdi in the Soudan may hold out for a time against the force sent against him. The intelligent Moslems, however, realize the utter hopelessness of an assault upon the Christian powers...
John the orange-man, feels very jubilant over the result of his assault case...
...horse in a place of safety, and then rushed John and his cart across the street, overturning them and injuring John in the leg and chest. John's wrath was up, so he hurried his old legs towards the police station, where he entered a formal complaint of assault and battery against Blake. On Tuesday, Messrs. Merriam and Hobbs of the Law School appeared before Judge Orcutt with witnesses, and on the strength of their testimony a summons was issued for Blake to appear. The trial came off yesterday morning, and John's popularity with the students was well shown...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - When the freshmen are assailed on every side with so many charges, it seems almost to be treason for one of their number to join in the assault. But forbearance certainly ceases some time to be a virtue and this time seems to have been reached in the matter of the conduct of certain members of English A. The catalogue states that this course deals with the theory and practice of English composition. But some who are taking the course evidently think that it deals with the theory and practice of English conversation, especially with the practice...
...case of their refusal. It may occur to many of our modern student readers to wonder how such conduct could be reconciled with the principles which even in those darkened days must have been present with the perpetrators, and where the boundary-line ran between it and the highway assault and robbery. Such, however, was the false reasoning of drink-loving students that they argued: "What I now plunder from you, you may in turn plunder from those who will soon be in your position, and may sanction go with...