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Word: combats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combat social apathy here (only 25 percent of the current graduating class took part in extra-curricular activities), the New Orleans Senior called for the establishment of "a central building to house and encourage these activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stern Asks More Knowledge, Less Grade - Pursuing | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

...half a dozen governments. The purported plots crossed ideological lines; they were against rightist regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, against leftist governments in Cuba, Guatemala, Venezuela. At hand in the U.S. were stacks of surplus guns, and plenty of adventurers, unemployed fighter pilots, aerial gunners and combat infantrymen who would fight at the drop of a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Guns Across the Caribbean | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...eliminate their social causes: international tension, housing shortages, strikes, graft, racketeering. Meanwhile, the A.P.A. has set out to collect funds for research and public education. A.P.A.'s newly organized Psychiatric Foundation, starting life penniless, hopes by public education to attract more medical students into psychiatry, and to "combat the stigma connected with mental illness" which still keeps thousands of emotionally frazzled people from consulting a psychiatrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nervous Nation | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

While Jack Barnaby's Varsity enjoys an open date on its schedule because of the Intercollegiate Championships, Corey Winn and his Freshman squad will journey downstream this afternoon to tackle the M.I.T. 50's. The Crimson yearlings are undefeated as yet in official combat, while the Tech aggregation is not too highly thought of and should be easy pickings for the Freshmen's fourth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Entries Bow In Tennis at Williams; '50 Plays Tech Today | 5/14/1947 | See Source »

Said the Paris Combat: "The world stands at the edge of an abyss. Germany will be divided into two blocs, and there will be iron curtains on both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Aftermath | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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