Word: bulwarks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue shirt of the thrifty American worker is perhaps the surest bulwark against the red shirt of Communism. A more liberal outlook on the part of the government toward social problems, backed by salutary neglect of Communist bugaboo, would tend to weaken the hold of revolutionary agitators America's industrial centers...
Editor Morrison had to bank heavily upon his distinction between an undenominational magazine, as The Christian Century describes itself, and the denominational press. Except for the Wet Catholic journals, most important of which are Commonwealth and America, the denominational press is mainly a Dry bulwark. Prohibition leans hard upon the support of the Methodist Episcopal Christian Advocate (circulation 250,000), the Presbyterian Christian Observer (34,553), and their like...
Carefully examined and legalistically weighed, the Irwin Plan is as trustworthy a bulwark of British rule in India as the Simon Report, but it is much more palatable. India, which yearns to taste the apple of Dominion Status, is almost promised that she may presently feel "the first impress" of this apple...
...laws of nations are founded on the heritage of their great men. It is on the bulwark of past experience that intelligent society can best build and interpret the solutions of present problems. The Law School galleries bear witness to men of Harvard who in the past history of the United States have contributed to this cause. It is fitting that Justice Holmes should already find a place of honor among them...
...then Captain General of Catalonia, Primo de Rivera, marched upon Madrid in 1923 with the "confidence" of his fellow military satraps and? it is generally believed?the connivance of the King. His Majesty thought in 1923 and continued to think last week that extra-Constitutional methods would best bulwark his Throne...