Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engagement. Success has made them wary. A series of difficult contests lies ahead, and the optimistic glow of early victory envelopes Harvard's prospects. But under the aureole of hope lies the reality of a long, hard, lighting season. The team is facing the reality, and girding itself for combat. With one eye on Saturday's victory and one eye on the future, the University offers a ringing toast to its 1925 hockey team...
...country (about the size of Alabama), steeped in ignorance, has become a hotbed of Communist agitation; and many and violent have been the troubles. To end this alarming state of affairs, therefore, the Resident General was empowered by the French Government to inform the Bey that the way to combat Communism is by granting the people fundamental liberties...
Where shirts are black and blood runs hot, challenges to mortal combat are by no means out of fashion. But enlightened Italian society does not impugn a man of high station if, in the rush of affairs, he finds it more convenient to surrender his duelling privileges to some staunch friend...
...This is a tremendously improved showing over early service records, but still not nearly so good as that of the Air Mail. The reason is: Air Mail pilots fly steadily along, like bus or locomotive drivers, they do no "stunts"; for Army men, stunting, tricky combat training and bomb dropping are all in a day's work...
...damned their enemy with a definition, California physicians, health authorities, sharpened the temper of their vigilance. The street-ends of the infected district were barricaded with ropes, guards were posted, armed with short shotguns, to enforce the quarantine. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appropriated $25,000 to combat the epidemic, appointed a special committee of experts to organize the measures. A serum, manufactured in Philadelphia, was rushed to Los Angeles by Transcontinental Air Service. The shipment contained more than 500 doses, enough, it was thought, to meet the present emergency. Four more deaths occurred, bringing the total...