Word: combat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is predicted to be an evenly matched game will be started this afternoon at 2 o'clock when the Harvard and Dartmouth soccer teams, clash on Soldiers Field in the annual game preceding the Harvard-Dartmouth football combat...
...felt himself-at last-unable to combat intelligent-argument with loud and blatant phrases. They all lay down sooner or later...
...sole boast to uniqueness that this combat might have had is in the characters of the principals. One was touted--to the death--as a student prince; the other made an odd comeback to popularity by emphasizing those qualities which once made him an unpopular champion--brute force and a marvelous thickness of skin as regards what the public had to say concerning him. The gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst...
...surprisingly, it is spun too far. Biologists and psychologists, after learning that "theatricalness" is a peculiarly human attribute, will be puzzled to hear that the strutting of cock birds, the romping of dogs and even the protective coloration of plants, are not functions of the instincts of sex, combat, self-preservation, etc. but are, according to theatrical M. Evreinov, expressions of a hitherto unnoticed "theatre" instinct, deepest...
Prize fighting is popular because, watching it, civilized people are vicariously purged of their primitive inclinations. Another need that it satisfies becomes evident, not only in the prefight betting, but in the event the outcome is disputable. Onlookers can then enter actual combat, with their opinions. In the Stone Age, a fight was simply a fight, with no nonphysical exchanges before or after. Today a fight stimulates the popular art of debate. Psychologically speaking, the meeting of the country's two second-best physical fighters last week in the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, was one of the most successful affairs...