Word: combated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After some hesitancy, Secretary Mellon undertook a "common sense" defense of everyone's expenses. Wages of political workers had risen like other wages, he said. It had cost $42,000 merely to mail one letter to every registered Pennsylvania voter. Huge advertisements had been thought necessary to combat the appetizing Vare beer cry. Political moneys spent in Pennsylvania were "as legitimate as money given to a church." If there was a culprit it was no man but the direct primary itself...
...diehard, militant Fundamentalists, led by Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Philadelphia, who interpret Holy Writ literally; insist that all Presbyterians shall thus interpret it; and put a candidate into the field to combat a supposed menace to the "historic, blood-bought standards of the Presbyterian Church...
...Program. General Bonzani, Italian Undersecretary for Aviation, announced last week that Italy now possesses 800 "front line combat airplanes,"* and that "the Department of Italian Industry is making satisfactory progress on 600 new planes, 250 of which will be of all-metal construction of the most recent type...
...spite of dubions umpiring and the other minor faults of any such combat a good time was enjoyed by all and it is hoped that this may not be the last delightful and edifying outing...
Civilization loves to sun itself in the bleachers while experts exercise Everyone has experienced the thrill of a home run or a touch-down made by another. Much may be said for this division of labor which permits complacent persons the joy of combat at the cost of purely optical exercise. By a simple mental translation, the spectator becomes himself the hero of the hour...