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Word: combat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...servings of Oysters a week will combat goiter (by supplying deficiencies of iodine in the diet) and provide significant amounts of vitamins A, B, C, D and G-reported by Bureau of Fisheries' E. J. Coulson, South Carolina Food Research Commission's Roe Eugene Remington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists at Washington | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...into line with actual selling prices. Concessions and shading had long ago made the old list-prices a pleasant fiction. Observers last week agreed that Akron's latest upheaval had done little but clear the field for Mr. Firestone and the mail-order tire to meet in single combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Firestone v. Mail-Order | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Simultaneous announcement of a one-year extension of the present temporary plan for student employment and of a further reduction in the cost of board is most pleasing to those who have labored so long to combat the current belief that Harvard is a rich man's college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT EMPLOYMENT | 3/22/1933 | See Source »

...disregard all principles of peace and make war in Manchuria, then China will fight back. She will fight and defend herself. We do not yet know her objective except that it is to drive Japan from Manchuria, but the Chinese armies are now in a far better position to combat the Japanese armies than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colonel Lin Says China Will Stand Firm Against Japanese Advances in Jehol--Maintains League Will Give No Help | 2/23/1933 | See Source »

...Freedom." Often, on their own lands, they go about naked even in midwinter, although this is less popular with the younger generation than with strapping Doukhobor matrons and bearded elders. Nakedness is also a convenient form of protest against the Government, a protest which the Northwest Mounted Police combat with whips, tear-bombs, itch-powder (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Doukhobor Race | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

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