Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ingalls was indeed an ace. He left college, aged 18, to be trained in naval aviation, flew in combat from March October, 1918, emerged aged 19 with me than five enemy airships to his crew (only U. S. Navy ace) to take his degree after being decorated by England with the D. F. C., by the U. S. with...
When buck deer fight to the often as not it is starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side...
...Plainfield. His wife is the granddaughter of the late Alexander Smith, carpet tycoon. Since both men were Wet, the Stewart-McLean campaign, brief and bitter, turned only on national issues. Republican McLean asked for a vote of confidence in the Hoover Administration, eulogized the President's attempts to combat Depression. Democrat Stewart flayed President Hoover for "refusing to face the facts," for ducking and dodging economic responsibility. The Republican National Committee sent two second-string speakers into the district to help Nominee McLean whereas Jouett Shouse, Democratic executive chairman, and the two New York Senators stumped Morris and Union...
...people had accustomed but not blinded him to human misery. In the winter of 1914 he began trying to feed and house a few down-&-outers, many of them drunkards and criminals. What made them that way? wondered Father Flanagan. Deciding that the best place to combat human woe is near the beginning of human life, he borrowed $90, found five urchins, started a home for homeless, wayward, neglected boys. Since 1917, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home has become a source of pride to Omaha, a model institution for the nation. Through Father Flanagan's hands have...
Considerable of the interest aroused by the find was due to the fact that the cracked and battered old picture, on being thoroughly renovated and cleaned, was found contrary to general tradition not to represent the Battle of Fribourg but some entirely different combat, which has yet to be identified. Casanova was a celebrated painter of battle scenes who lived in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The picture in question originally belonged to the Conde family, later passed into the hands of Cardinal Fesch, and finally was given to the Lyons Museum who in turn loaned...