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Word: combatant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Party', are in possession of nearly a third of China. They have succeeded more than any previous ruling group in subordinating the military to the civil departments. Their general, Chiang Kai-shek has proved himself a tactician and politician of rare ability. He has unified a 'solid South' to combat the Northern militarists and to espouse the cause of reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progressive Have Upper Hand in Chinese Intestinal Conflict | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

...author, Professor of Psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School, declares that much physical ill comes from false thinking--a thesis that he supports with convincing examples. He predicts that the next great task of medicine will be to combat the unsound beliefs that subtly but surely undermine health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATEST HARVARD BOOKS | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...Interstate Commerce Commission. The Constitution makers were cautiously indefinite about the unknown ground between the powers of the President and Congress. It has always been ground teeming with potential danger, but it only becomes a menace to stable government when a hostile Congress and President square off for violent combat: witness the turbulent administration of Andrew Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Unknown Ground | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Coach Roper declined definitely to fame his starting, eleven, and considerable doubt still exists as to just how much time the various Tiger cripples will be able to spend in active combat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE TIGER LAIR | 11/4/1926 | See Source »

With his attention already focused on the Princeton game two week hence, the Crimson eleven was sent through one of its most severe scrimmage sessions of the season yesterday afternoon against a pick-up team employing Tiger plays. At the close of an hour of combat, the makeshift team emerged a close sivo'or over the University outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKESHIFT TEAM DOWNS TEAM A ON TIGER PLAYS | 10/28/1926 | See Source »

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