Word: combats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral, a three-year-old last year, had won every race he started, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby. Preakness, Belmont Stakes), and wound up the year with earnings of $166,500 in spite of being hors de combat for five months because of a sore foot. His owner, Samuel D. Riddle, and many another thought War Admiral was the greatest horse in the world...
Because Harvard is the first university on A. F. of L. labor lists, the new local will, in effect, become as "inside" as the Harvard Employees Representative Association, formed in January expressly to combat national organizations in labor fields within the College...
...Raymond Walton, a recent graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, offers an authoritative and intriguing account of "The Oxford Man in Party Politics." To combat misconceptions about the aristocratic heritage of British university life he cites the fact that at his former alma mater "over half of the undergraduates are in receipt of financial assistance independent of family ties." His sketch of political clubs at Oxford and of students participation in party activities should be of great interest to Harvard men--all too often aloof from "politics...
...motive for introducing murals and sculpture into subway stations is an obvious one: the wish to combat an atmosphere which is always lugubrious and occasionally sinister. . . . Manufacturers of breakfast-foods, hair tonics and other springboards to the better life have for years covered the walls of subway stations with vivid posters. . . . Young voyagers . . . frequently add a mustache here, a black eye there, thus proving their disrespect for the esthetic effects offered them...
After eight years of interviewing industrial leaders, explorers and prominent people generally, Joseph Mitchell came to the conclusion that "the best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell...