Word: breastworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff competition can be expected from the Alumni and the Providence Boys' Club in the preliminary meets. Such former Crimson luminaires as Roy Wallace '35, George Scott '34, and Robert Fallon '33, in the freestyle events; Edward Stowell '34 in the backstroke; and Victor Leventritt '34 in the breastwork should provide an exacting test for the varsity; and in Matthew Chrostowski and John Higgins, National record holders in the sprints and breastwork respectively, the Boys' Club can vaunt itself of two prominent candidates for next year's Olympics...
...marvel of underground mechanics, equivalent to ten dreadnaughts buried in a mountain, connected by poison-gas-tight tunnels and served by miles of subterranean railways on which projectiles and even guns can be rushed from point to point. Hochwald is almost entirely on the surface, a two-mile breastwork of cement and steel blocking German advance and called by General Max "The Giant's Trenches...
Senator Sheppard did all in his power to stay the humming bird's flight. He spent nearly a month stumping Texas against Repeal. He traveled 5,000 mi. in a Ford truck on which was loaded a pulpit and loud speaker. From behind this breastwork he addressed 45,000 persons on 48 occasions. Each time he spoke for about an hour, requiring no cough drops, no throat spray. His speeches were mostly prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want...