Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year for the first time, the duties of trainer for the football men. The only injuries of any consequence are a leg injury which will keep J. J. Maher '26 on the sidelines for three weeks, and a sprained ankle which will render Henry Chauncey '28, hors de combat for a like length of time at least...
...warnings that bands of desperate western criminals, foiled by vigilance committees at home, are now descending in hordes upon the East. Mr. Joyce declared that before the National Crime Commission could get under way it might be necessary to organize "well drilled, well armed corps of expert riflemen" to combat criminals on the scene of their operations. "Something must be done, and done quickly," said Mr. Joyce...
...longer were the courts of the West Side Club the scene of a populous and pretty carnival. Combat had narrowed, grown bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...
...class of 1918 at Yale, to which college he came after being graduated from Groton, he devoted himself after the opening of the European War to the formation of the Yale Naval Aviation Unit, which performed heroic service later both in matters of organization and of actual combat, and of which Ralph D. Paine had just completed a history before his death. Into this he poured enthusiasm, time and money. He built it up to a point of great usefulness and efficiency. Then, when he was taking his own flying tests at Huntington, L. I., in 1917, his machine crashed...
...sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...