Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent memory, there is a possibility that the fifty few thousand who attend the game will be composed of those who actually are interested in the jarring combat of two powerful elevens, and not in the incidental festivities. The lust for sensation has temporarily been sated...
...North Carolina football team has not visited the Stadium to engage a Harvard eleven in combat since 1916. In that year a Tarheel aggregation, coached by two Harvard graduates under the famous Haughton system, was turned back by a 21 to 0 count...
...clinked merrily into the coffers, rarely receiving the close attentions of other than minor attaches, until public sentiment has at last placed the receipt of money as well as its expenditure in the realm of the executive. No longer will the eye of leadership unswervingly be fixed upon the combat-it must often revert to the ammunition...
...week he mounted a Tallahassee bandstand and began an anti-Smith speech. He touched upon Roman Catholicism. Whizzz-smack went an egg. Mr. Catts continued. Whizzz-smack went many eggs. Mr. Catts stopped talking. Irate, he left the bandstand, offered to fight any man in the crowd in single combat, offered a reward for the apprehension of his eggers...
...used a style of combat peculiar to his nation; Jiu Jitsu, the gentle and famous art of making an opponent use his strength to encompass his own defeat. For 3,000 years the Japanese have used this graceful and economical method of self defense. Jiu Jitsu must not be compared or confused with another often pictured species of Japanese wrestling, somewhat like capoeira, in which two 400-lb. bullies stand face to face and each endeavors mainly by pulling at the sparse clothing of his adversary to topple him over. Jiu Jitsu requires enormous training; Jap boys rise early...