Word: combated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most interesting experience," he said, "was a visit to France during the War. In 1918, at the request of the authorities, I went abroad to see what could be done to assist morale and combat homesickness, a very prevalent and really serious malady, in our camps overseas, by sending to our soldiers the atrical entertainment from home. In company with Mr. E. B. Sothern, the Shakesperean actor, I spent three months surveying the varied conditions. We visited at least 50 of The American encampments, and spent one night under artillery fire at Toul, which was then our front...
...shifts in the cheer-leading squad will make it possible for the candidates remaining in the competition to lead the cheering in both University and Freshman games today. One shift will cover the first and fourth quarters of the Holy Cross game, and will officiate at the 1929-Exeter combat during the two middle periods, while they are replaced at the University stands by the other ball of the squad...
Spoke up: "Let's combat December...
...farmer's son, instead, of leading books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced...
...desperate combat for the city of London the army of Wessex last week locked in a death grapple with the army of Mercia. Rain fell and fell until even Noah's contemporaries would have been convinced that there was going to be a flood. And finally after everyone had been soaked to the bone, the umpires decided that the sham battle had saved London for Mercia...