Word: combating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mustard gas and Lewisite which are toxic poisons to anything that they touch," added Captain Phillips, "the only protection is a suit, similar to oilskins, that covers the whole body but which so hampers a man as to make him unfit for actual combat...
...down the back-stairs of obscurity. But the three man defence was developed, and the team sat on its high pinnacle as firmly as ever. This year more new rules have caused the further progress of American hockey towards the Canadian, and the Winsor system again faces trial by combat...
...such as the new Debating Union has been felt at Harvard for many years, and it was decided t try the experiment on the principle of two definite groups distinctly differing in their general trend of thought towards political questions. The Conservative Club upholds the existing order and will combat the radical tendencies which it believes are to be found in the ranks of the Progressives. The latter stand for liberal and constructive thought and the trial of new and practicable ideas which make for progress. Both clubs will draw platforms which will be announced later...
...that you should introduce such child's play in your last remarks; and, above all, that you had to bring in that much-strained joke about giving the name of "H. E. L. L." (Harvard Emasculated Language League) to a society which might be formed to combat the bad language of today. If you have no helpful suggestions to make about this work in Verona (and most obviously you have not), you will do best to "let well enough alone...
Yale will be called upon to combat a forward pass attack said to be equal to that developed by any eleven in years. In addition to the aerial plays, the Iowa team possesses in Captain Gordon Locke a line plunger who should worry the Yale defence...