Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to impress upon you that the system of national defense which Congress has established is wholly unfitted for aggression. It would be several months-nine at least-before we could make our Army into a combat army at full strength...
...more congressmen traveled in such humble spirit, how much they might learn, or at least how much ignorance they would conceal! Of course, the newspapers would do their best to combat any such tendency toward silence, especially with summer coming on, for it's hard enough to fill thirty-two pages at any time of the year. But if congressmen returning from Europe are successful in quelling their natural tendencies, a great amount of hot air can be stored up for the snowy season, and the clouds of ignorance which hang over this darkened land of Egypt will...
...combat the disease, there has come into being at Dravrah a class of people of hybrid nature, something between Prophezzors and Satellites, called Shock-Producers, whose function it is to awaken the sleepers. For some reason unintelligible to me the Shock-Producers occupy a relatively unimportant position at present; but their significance seems destined to increase, because they strike at the root of the evil at Dravrah. Their task is tremendous and requires the greatest skill and ingenuity. They must shock the Satellites in such a way as to awaken them without killing them, and in some cases it seems...
...Antiquarian Expedition to Rome has brought back a manuscript of great importance to scholars and rubbish mongers. It is none other than an ancient Hearstissimus newspaper, yellow with age and other contributing causes. From its pages is taken the following contemporary is taken the following contemporary account of the combat between Aeneas and Turnus, which proves that Virgil garbled the facts in Book XII of the "Aeneid...
...know that our good people will bear with me for referring to this un clean thing. But it teaches the importance of our organized Catholic Charities to combat the forces of evil that would exploit the bodies and ruin the souls of the children...