Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish revolt against the Romans in 30 A.D. After treating the audience to a pretty thorough study of oppression at its Roman worst, the picture knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful, youthful John Beal) is leader of the Zealots, a Jewish revolutionary society. He has three problems: i) to defeat the Romans; 2) to win languid Tamar (Marjorie Cooley) who seems a little puzzled by all the excitement; 3) to convince his father, Rabbi Lamech (Maurice Moscovich), that it is better to free the Jews than to read the Talmud. The arrival of Jesus of Nazareth solves all these problems...
...Tigertown, the Jayvees may find troubles as the well-balanced Orange and Black Jayvee aggregation has already chalked up two lop-sided wins while suffering only one defeat...
Justin Winsor, College Librarian in the last century, thought that "books should be used to the largest extent possible and with the least trouble." But today Widener's monumental size threatens to defeat this principle. Consequently the library fails to play its part in undergraduate education...
Yesterday afternoon before 300 people at the Myopia Hunt Club the newly formed Harvard Bicycle Polo Club met defeat at the hands of the more experienced Hamilton Bicycle Polo Club to the tune...
...Herr Hitler and National Socialism are the products of the defeat of a great nation in war and its reaction against the confusion and distress which followed that defeat. National Socialism itself is a revolution and a conception of national philosophy. Contrary to democracy, which implies the subordination of the State to the service of its citizens, Naziism prescribes the subordination of its citizens to the service of the State, an all embracing moloch, and to the individual who rules that State...