Word: bulwarks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sofia last week beauteous, Italian-born Tsaritza loanna took the Zlateff coup calmly, seemed confident that General Zlateff will do as much to bulwark the non-existent Crown of Tsar Boris as Editor Mussolini has done to make safe the hereditary crown of her father King Vittorio Emanuele III, a holy crown too small to be worn, supposedly fashioned in part out of a nail from the True Cross...
...responsibility to the country fully as great. Confronted with a well-nigh hopeless minority in Congress, the Republican party has nevertheless a real opportunity for reorganization and renewed strength as the only articulate Opposition likely to be heard in America for some time to come. It is the only bulwark against the evils inherent in a bureaucracy so unprecedented as that now being formed in Washington. It must take a firm stand on the issues that confront the next Congress: inflation, the bonus, restoration of pay-cuts, greatly increased taxation, and the all-important budget...
...passer in the games so far, though all season he has been troubled by an injury, just as last year a broken ankle put him on the bench during the first few weeks of practice. His co-star in the backfield, the 187-pound Jackson, has been a bulwark of defense in every encounter of the season and lately has even taken over the role of a running back...
...states to cooperate in preventing political assassinations. Informally they then discussed with correspondents the many rumors that terrorists, escaped from Jugoslavia, have been harbored in Hungary in circumstances suggesting that their keep might have been paid by Italians who felt that King Alexander was too stanch a bulwark against Il Duce's aspirations in the Adriatic...
...alteration. Hagerman is the expert placement kicker of the Green who enabled the Indians to tie the Crimson last year and he has been even more accurate this year. Carl Ray, the heavy pudgy center who was the star on last year's freshman eleven has been a bulwark in the Dartmouth line and his defensive play this season has solved what threatened to be a big problem for the coaching staff...