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Word: ramparts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell will speak at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6 on the subject "Facts and Dogmas of Democracy," and the Vagabond hardly needs say that anyone missing such an opportunity no longer deserves the privilege of wearing the vagabonder's insignia--curiosity rampart on a background of roller-skates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

...sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faery Epic* | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...Defensively the Harvard line was a rampart of concrete. Against this impregnable barrier, 27 battering ram assaults by Yale broke for a gain of only 59 yards, in which were only six first downs, and which carried Yale once to Harvard's 32-yard line and once to the Crimson's 35-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRITICS CROWN CRIMSON WITH VERBAL LAURELS | 11/22/1920 | See Source »

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