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Word: combating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type of burn. Today there is more than one indication that thermit and white phosphorous are going to be dumped on rear area installations in appalling quantities. But even if we discount this rather gruesome possibility, we cannot escape the gasoline motor. Our tanks, our trucks, our reconnaissance and combat cars . . . will present a continuing fire and explosion hazard. And as they go up under enemy fire and enemy bombing, I rather suspect that you will find more first, second and third degree burns than any of us like to consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ready for War | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...actuality of vicious inflation. When this time comes, the Republicans must be prepared to assume the role of aggressive leadership. Therefore it is necessary to begin now, not a few months before Sovember, 1940, in the great task of rebuilding a party and taking up the gage of combat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW DAY AND A NEW DAWN | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Viewing the Roosevelt landslide as representing in part the cession of "proletariat" votes to combat an envisioned close race with the forces of "Fascism" latent in Landon support, the John Reed Society last night concluded a meeting in Phillips Brooks House to interpret the results of the election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reed Society Meets | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

...itself in the U. S., and its equipment is standard in the civil and military services of no less than 21 for eign lands. Eastman Kodak is quite content to supply film. One growing use for film is in Fairchild's machine-gun camera, an instrument for training combat pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fairchild Fission | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Unquestionably the recent ruling will go a long way to combat the traditional amaze in which the first year man finds himself when faced with the problem of choosing a House. Leverett, Lowell, Kirkland, Winthrop, Dunster, Adams, Eliot--each has an appeal of its own and it is fit that each should have a chance to put its best foot forward while entertaining Freshmen guests. The move means an even greater complication in the labyrinthine account-system of Lehman Hall and the University has shown highly commendable goodwill in making the sacrifice for the benefit of Man and House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE ACCEPT WITH PLEASURE | 10/20/1936 | See Source »

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