Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generals in the World War. The Ceneral Powers beat his soldiers back almost to Venice, but with supreme skill and assurance he struck the Austrian forces the blows that drove them from Italy and that meant the fall of the Double Eagle and the withdrawal of Austria from the combat. After the Armistice he received the highest honors from his allies, among them the United States, which he visited...
...difficult to judge the Freshmen skaters as they had but little opposition in their initial combat with Belmont School last Wednesday...
...will not abandon my resistance until the . . . pirate invaders . . . assassins of weak peoples . . " are expelled from my country. ... I will make them realize that their crimes will cost them dear. . . . There will be bloody combat...
...inaccessible, rich, and self supporting. Moreover, despite the passionate pacificism of many of its citizens who realize the butchering possibilities of another war, America calmly pursues an intensive program of military training, and will now build each year five cruisers of the type most effective for modern naval combat, to prepare herself for war with England or Japan. These factors being taken into consideration, a suggestion from the United States that war be stopped merely by the assumption of moral responsibility was not the thing to make foreign politicians chortle with delight. And when one realizes that unless the Constitution...
...Appointee McNeill is virtually unknown; but Britons are content that he should represent the Crown because of his long and faithful service to the Government of India. From 1888 to 1912 he held various posts in the administration of Bombay, later being charged with educative work to combat the plague throughout India. His brother, Irish Free State Minister of Education John McNeill, reputedly secured his appointment, four years ago, as first High Commissioner of the Irish Free State at London...