Word: combated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the remarkable achievements of latter-day America is the consolidation of the service of God and Mammon. Dr. Straton has lately put himself at the head of the Supreme Kingdom, an organization "to combat atheism, and its cursed ally, evolution", and to raise 1,000,000 dollars for the purpose. Dr. Stratton's share of the receipts are estimated at 30,000 dollars. Membership in the Supreme Kingdom costs twelve dollars if one joins as a "Crusader", 500 dollars, as a "Mystic Knight", 1000 dollars as a "Foundation Member". The general manager for this twentieth century scale of indulgences...
...purpose of the Supreme Kingdom is to "combat atheism and its accursed ally, evolution." It points to the spread of atheism in the South, as evidenced by pamphlets urging unbelief which have recently appeared in great quantity, given away at street corners and in the arcades of office buildings. Has the Supreme Kingdom had these pamphlets printed at its own printshop (whence issues Dynamite, the Kingdom's official organ) and had them circulated as if they came from an atheist society? So declared the Macon, (Ga.,) Telegraph. Further, the Telegraph hardily asserted that the Supreme Kingdom was "shot through with...
There is no doubt in the world that college spirit counts in football. The sense of solidarity with their human background always gives men strength in combat, just as a tendency to individualism weakens them. The boy who can feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams...
...twelfth agreement between the U. S. and a foreign nation to combat liquor smuggling, and thus bolster up the Volstead Act, was reached last week when Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, recently arrived Spanish Ambassador, exchanged solemn pacts. Similar agreements are now in force with Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Sweden. Treaties are pending with Belgium and France...
Roland H. Hartley, lumber-mag-rate, Governor of Washington: "To combat the recall movement (TIME, Nov. 1) started against me by friends of Dr. Henry Suzzallo, whom I had ousted as president of the University of Washington, I recently commenced publication of a little magazine called Hartley's Weekly. But I still am not without troubles. The other day, when walking past a high school building near the capitol, I heard a downy-cheeked, 14-year-old lad yell: 'There goes old Hartley-he's going to get it in the neck when the recall comes...