Word: combat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gherardo, the poor Parman is a religious rebel who gives all his money to the poor and dares combat with the Church of Rome. He is not, however, entirely a saint. His lusts lead him to betray a sympathetic virgin who later returns to help him conduct his holy reforms. Gherardo, veering like a mediaeval Elmer Gantry between his passion for this girl and his passion for reform, is led at last to betray his followers in an effort to secure her release from jail. In this effort he fails. He watches her being strangled and is then carried...
Such an offspring of the contest introduced this spring was not at all foreseen by the sporting prognosticators, to whom the derided "scholastic meet" was food for no little amount of ridicule. The glory of victory in this type of combat is indeed not of the strike-up-the-band manner; nor is it to be placed among any categories of the past. It is, like the contest itself, of more subtle stuff, and the exchange of thoughts and progress between universities is not the least of its merits...
...Moscow, they said, King Amanullah flatly refused to participate in a scheduled presentation of 49 combat planes to the Red Air Force, when he learned that the planes had been purchased from the so-called Reply To Chamberlain Fund...
...calculated to put more emphasis on either scholarship or intellectual ability or both. But to imagine that such tests will command continued public attention is to give the public too much credit. The public is not interested, you might even say that students generally are not interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual...
...Smith men seemed inadequate, senseless. Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval Phelan, locally no less potent than McAdoo or Hearst but not clearly the Democratic strong-man of California able to combat the other two and confound them by division. The California primary, set for May Day, loomed large and inscrutable...