Word: battlegrounds
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...question of high or low tariff, long a battleground between Republicans and Democrats, has in recent years lost some of its pristine vigor. The Republicans have ignored the high tariff except for perfunctory eulogies. The Democrats have used it chiefly as a handy missile for occasional flings at their opponents...
...American is recognized abroad by the lines in his face. It always looks like a battleground of struggle between his real nature and his puritan upbringing...
...episode, and the death of William Jennings Bryan, the fundamentalists have been unwontedly quiet. But signs are not lacking which indicate that this silence is by no means permanent. If Texas can produce another Scopes, and the nation another Bryan, the Lone Star State may well be the next battleground in a war which, it is not impossible, will be fought up and down the country. in politics and out, before it is concluded...
...children in overalls, who crowd toward the court house to get seats for the day's proceedings in the trial of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, alleged violator of the state's antievolution law, bewildered instrument of Science and Faith which have accidentally chosen Dayton as their battleground and in whose wake has come the usual camp-following of freaks, fakes, mountebanks and parasites of publicity...
...present, about 50% of the bread consumed in the U. S. is baked at home in the old-fashioned way. The other 50% constitutes a battleground for competition between about 35,000 bakeries throughout the country-almost all small neighborhood or local establishments. But the idea of mergers and combinations has already entered this field. Yet it has not proceeded far, as only 100 bakeries thus far are controlled by the three largest baking companies, above mentioned...