Word: combats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have received the encomiums of the speakers with a certain sense that I have not fully understood. One of them said that I had an unsual amount of courage. That has never entered my mind. I confess to recognizing another quality to which President Lowell referred--a readiness for combat. I look back upon my life as a boy sometimes engaged in those rough and tumble fights which we used to have on Boston Common, and I recognized there at a tender age that I did display considerable enjoyment in fighting...
...Committee for the Preservation of the Faith in Palestine has been formed by members of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Its object is to "combat anti-Catholic propaganda...
...University hockey players will take a respite from their examinations in order to combat the Boston University sextet at the Arena this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The game was definitely arranged yesterday after fruitless efforts on the part of the Harvard management to induce the speedy Pittsburg club to prolong its stay another day and play the Crimson this evening...
...year ago is little short of startling. With the possible exception of Lew Tendler in 1922, he is the most logical contender in several years for the throne of Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard. Unhappily for him, Benny's habit is to render contenders decidedly illogical in actual combat. Moran and Leonard will probably meet next Summer in an outdoor fight...
...perspective at the movies, and his forethought in clicking the latch will doubtless all prove of value. But meanwhile as he sits on the fence, (a very comfortable one), passing what snap judgements his fancy may dictate, it is satisfying to realize that in the field below the combat is intense, and that on descending into it, though he may perish from almost any cause, he will not die of boredom...