Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...would feel so grateful for remaining intact after the War that they would willingly concede this power. No sooner had the session begun, however, than it was evident that these lesser nations were bent on making the Assembly, instead of the Council, the leading body in the League. Their attack was supported vigorously by such men as Lord Robert Cecil of South Africa and N. W. Rowell of Canada...
...start with, let me say that in our classes the same methods of attack and defense are taught that Jack Dempsey, Jack Britton, Benny Leonard, Johnny Kilbane and other champions had to learn in the more rugged school of Give and Take when they were youngsters breaking in. The same left jab, the same right cross, the same block and the same parry are a part of our system, but they are learned and practiced by the majority, not with the thought of achieving any championship honors, but with the idea of attaining genuine exercise. When one considers the footwork...
...news that Japan has sent troops into the Chinese city of Hunohun without China's permission raises a discordant note in Eastern affairs. Japan chooses to give as a reason for her act the excuse that the lives of Japanese citizens were lost and others endangered in a recent attack on Hunchun by Chinese bandits. She does not take into account China's announced intention to send Chinese troops to restore order, but calmly states that the Japanese troops will remain in control until all banditry has ceased--a limit that must be interpreted with the recognition that banditry...
Parke Davis, New York Herald authority, says "Harvard's battle plan, resourceful and lively, was an assault by forward passes. This system of attack continued-intermittently during the first half. Four of these assaults by air succeeded, carrying the Crimson forward seventy-five yards...
Grantland Rice, in the New York Tribune, says: "How then did Harvard look compared with Princeton? Harvard rushed the ball even more effectively against the Blue than did Princeton. The Crimson attack gained more ground, made more first downs by rushing, and made more first downs by forward passes...