Word: combats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sports, die when afflicted with professionalism; Whereas, promoters of professional football have this fall for the first time induced undergraduates to leave college for the purpose of participating in professional games; now therefore let it be resolved. That the educational institutions of this country be urged to unite and combat these tendencies to overemphasize and professionalize their competitive athletics...
...about. But if Harvard, Yale, and two other universities will take the lead in the matter and formulate some definite agreement looking to this end, there is no reason why this ideal, or one like it, should not ultimately be realized. And once definite steps have been taken to combat the present overemphasis of football, there can be no doubt that so progressive a lead would be imitated elsewhere...
Theoretically, the world would be better off without the menace of undersea combat added to the horrors of war on the surface and in the air. Although recent evidence apparently shows that the submarine can do little in direct combat with enemy battle units, it is well suited to destroying enemy commerce and striking fear into noncombatants. Even though abolishing submarines might protect these noncombatants, it is scarcely worth wasting breath on such a project at the present time. In the event of any great war in the future, the noncombatant population will be in far greater danger from aerial...
...Admiral Billard, in 1790. Its purpose is to protect the customs laws of the United States. In these days, around the end of the eighteenth century, smugglers were very active in running contraband into secluded bays and inlets along the Atlantic seaboard. The original Coast Guard cutters had to combat this activity, which they succeeded in stamping out, and smuggling of that character practically disappeared...
...Margot Asquith: "A vast dummy gun is on the fine site opposite the hospital, which would have been glad to receive half the money spent on it and other horrors that we could all numerate to perpetuate the spirit which it should be the privilege of the Church to combat...