Word: combated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina have adopted similar policies to combat the migration of their...
Bristling defenders of Americanism at Columbia have chosen rotten eggs, and masked man-handling to combat radicalism. They replied to the "insulting" doctrines of William Z. Foster by showering him and his audience with eggs; they answered jeers at the R. O. T. C. on parade by properly subduing with barrel-staves the student who pleaded guilty...
...afternoon in Watertown by the score of seven matches to one. Oakley scored on point when Chase defeated Dixon 6-4, 4-6, 10-8; otherwise the University players had things much their own way, winning their seven matches in straight sets. Kent and Oakley gave Briggs a stiff combat, losing only after two hard-fought sets, 10-8, 6-4. The third doubles match was not finished...
Behind the general's characteristic picturesqueness of language lies a grim purpose. He plans to build up respect for the law and the Constitution, to combat all influences which breed class or religious discrimination, and to restore the individualism which once marked the American, but which has been so largely swallowed up by unions, vast industries, and "collective bargaining." Again General Dawes has tackled a man-sized...
...electrification of the whole gigantic country. The plan is now to build a huge fleet of airships, for a multitude of purposes. In view of the "bad state of the highways and railway lines", the airships could be used advantageously for postal express and passenger service; also "to combat epidemics, to help the weather man, to aid fishing industries, and form closer contact with remote villages...