Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Jesse appeared at a city judge's office for a hearing on the assault case he was accompanied by his father, Brother James, two brothers-in-law, several friends. Presently, 25 more men filed silently into court. Said an onlooker: "There would have been a little excitement if a firecracker had gone off." The judge took one look at the two groups, postponed the case. Thus Constable Allen has not had his day in court...
...foes in the wooden horse, as it has done in so far as possible to date, the danger is slight, and Election Day should bring at best an armistice between town and gown; at worst, the temporary defeat of Plan E. But Harvard must always be prepared for political assault of this kind so long as its "academic freedom" includes complete freedom of political thought to its teachers and students, and as long as Harvard's name is bigger news than most individuals'. As a progressive ideal in education, this privilege, extended to teachers like Dean Landis and to Granville...
Twenty-four hours later the Japanese Government launched a brand new major assault upon Chinese Independence in general and the Chinese Generalissimo in particular. In South China waters, on the night after Independence Day, wide-eyed captains of coastal steamers raced for Canton (see map, p. 17) with the news that scores of Japanese naval vessels were massed off Bias Bay, famed hideout of Chinese pirates, only 20 miles from the British Crown colony of Hong Kong...
Four Yardlings face arrest and trial this morning as the result of 1942's first collective outing, which took the form of an assault on an American Legion parade in Quincy Square at 9 o'clock last night...
Today they will all be fought out--the Civil War, the assault on monopolies, the clash of have's and have-not's--when the Chicago Cubs dare to meet the New York Yankees. As in the 60's, "Gin'ral" Lee, ace pitcher of the underdog National League club, will try to stop the "Damnyankees." That the Yankees are a monopolistic and "have" organization cannot be disputed, since they comprise one of the highest-salaried teams in baseball and own a farm system that makes them look impregnable for the future. Will the Ruppert beer-filled rifles riddle...