Word: combating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Force will be greater mobility and striking power. The Force will be divided into three "wings"-Atlantic Wing, with headquarters at Langley Field, Va.; Pacific Wing, at Hamilton Field, Calif., and Southern Wing, at Fort Crockett, Tex. (later to be moved to Barksdale Field, La.). A highly centralized combat unit of nearly 1,000 planes, the GHQ Air Force was officially regarded last week as the greatest move since the War in the modernization of U. S. military forces...
...landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling of cultural dependence upon the older continent. To combat this attitude Wood hose irony. His American Gothic (see reproduction) and his spectacular Daughters of Revolution, three prim spinsters against a background of Washington grossing the Delaware, were his first attack. This year, what most critics consider his most important painting. Dinner 'or Threshers (see reproduction), won no prize...
...well what you do." This, I realize, is a heresy among Harvard men; and yet it has a certain truth in it. If we are going to play football, and if we are going to charge large prices for the privilege of watching it, and if we intend to combat teams of superior calibre, we must do it well. Speaking from personal experience, I never objected to rigorous training rules, long practices, early returns in the fall, and superior coaching. At least I felt that I could be proud to play on the team. And, strangest of all, I never...
Robert Scott was a hard man, hard-bitten and harddriving. He trained himself to endure hardships. The implacable oppositions of Nature roused in him cold furies of combat. Educated at Stubbington House School, he got into the Navy, quickly made his abilities apparent, was rapidly promoted. At the turn of the Century he was named commander of the National Antarctic Expedition, set out in the Discovery with Shackleton among his men. They discovered King Edward VII Land, were frozen in for nearly two years off Ross Island, learned what scurvy meant. In the following years Captain Scott commanded three...
Such disturbances were commonly accepted as harbingers of winter. In both cases radical leaders were quick to capitalize on hunger and cold. Yet the Administration in Washington refused to be hustled into any determination of its relief plans to combat this form of discontent. Administrator Hopkins went out of his way to poke fun at Republican Ogden Mills who had declared in a campaign speech that there would be 20,000,000 people on relief by January...