Word: battlegrounds
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Despite talk that the proposed law might even be carried to Congress, the news services did not take it very seriously. They knew this battleground of old. Prior to 1900 laws were passed in Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas to define the press services as "common carriers" obliged to give service where requested. Momentous test case was that of the Chicago Inter-Ocean which, suspended from the A. P. for infraction of a rule, sued in 1898 to compel reinstatement. The Illinois court ruled that the A. P., then an Illinois corporation, had "granted to the public such an interest...
...United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come" for a true test of the continuance or disappearance of the eighteenth amendment. The November elections are the battleground...
...Harvard's varsity football squad, with its full complement of variegated retainers and a score of Boston newspapermen, paused for ten minutes here late this evening, bound for Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the Crimson's first quest for a big ten scalp on the latter's own battleground...
Colleges, Professor Rogers said, "worshipped marks", but he added that an A.B. degree merely indicated that the student had agreed with his professors during his four years at school, Grades make a battleground of the classroom, he said, and are a "disgrace to scientific education and must be done away with...
...decorous conduct is expected of the Secretary of War, and as he was hundreds of miles from New Orleans, Mr. Good had to content himself with drafting a bill and forwarding it to the House Military Affairs Committee providing that the U. S. take over and maintain this famed battleground, empowering him to send somebody out to chase away bovine desecrators...