Word: combated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is a tripartate, not a dual combat...
...Alexander von Zemlinsky, an Austro-Czecho-Slovakian. His Third, or "Lyric", Symphony was performed; its seven long movements are all built around a single leading motif: the theme of "a man bent on conquest and adventure, to whom love is but an episode in a life of combat and struggle." Zemlinsky used a baritone voice and many kettledrums to bring home with emphasis his dominant idea...
...Jolly 'Corks," now determined to organize a benevolent and protective society. What to call it ? Vivian remembered in England "The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos," but his comrades favored "Elks" when they discovered that animal described as "fleet of foot, timorous of wrong, but ever ready to combat in defense of self or the female...
Health. Thanks were conveyed to the Rockefeller Foundation for supplying funds for the establishment of an intelligence bureau at Singapore to combat epidemics in the Far East. The Council also approved the establishment of the bureau...
...General Roberto Bencivenga, clumped into the centre of the Chamber, followed by a good round hundred equally irate Deputies. A fist fight followed, in which the General was knocked out, and many black eyes, bloody noses and thick ears resulted. Next day the General challenged Deputy Giunta to mortal combat...