Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...could do better work, take up his pen night after night for four successive months; and if he can turn out better average editorial work than the CRIMSON board then let him throw his stone,--and perhaps it will have more accuracy, if less weight than his last wordy assault...
...magnanimity of the CRIMSON is proved by the presence of this article in its columns. Indeed there is an air of playful fisticuffs about the Monthly's assault that is not likely to arouse resentment. So that the CRIMSON can at least adopt a flattering metaphor, and admit the resemblance of its critics "to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them...