Word: combating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respiratory diseases, and it is not clear that the new organism is the invariable causal agent of influenza, though it is believed that it produces conditions in the lung tissues which facilitate the onset of pneumonia and other complications. No specific vaccine, or serum has yet been devised to combat the bacterium, nor has the work been confirmed by other observers. We are still a long way, therefore, from scientific control of epidemic influenza...
...Diego, California, ministers' sons formed a society to combat the base libels fastened upon their kind...
...help they render to their fellowmen, I am convinced it is not too much to say that the problem of making Labrador a meat-feeeding country for the world has a very strong claim on the attention of philanthropists who are spending enormous sums in hospitals and efforts to combat the results of poverty and want in less fortunate parts of the world. I am convinced that Dr. Sheldon Jackson of Alaska will be remembered through the ages not only for the theology that he taught in Alaska, but unquestionably for his establishment of the reindeer industry of Alaska...
Army Cannot Combat Industry...
...other hand, the German government is employing the trade unions to vitiate the force of the French, not through actual strikes, but by a withdrawal of efficiency. The situation in the Ruhr", the speaker pointed out, "is an excellent example of the inability of an army to combat an industry, and of the great power of organized labor in a modern industrial community...