Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best teams in the country. Could such a change be wrought in a baseball team in two short weeks? Hardly. Baseball is chiefly a game of skill, and it takes months and sometimes years to build a team which can master its difficult technique. But football is direct combat, and so eleven husky boys can be taught all they have to know in a dozen days of practice...
...University Soccer team will combat the Dartmouth eleven at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. An exhausting encounter is expected, as the Hanoverians last week-held the powerful Yale team to a 1 to 1 tie until the last minute of the final period, when the Elis scored another goal...
...combat the apathy, so long prevalent among voters betweeen the age of 21 and 25 that The Republican Associates has been formed. Older men, brought up in the traditions of the torchlight parade when voting was almost a religious duty, still respond to the call and by casting their ballot give a democratic form of government the life blood, which it needs Government, it is said, rests on the consent of the governed. This imposes on all of us--"the governed"--an obligation which under a monarchy we would not have. Unfortunately statistics show that in some cases only about...
...truth is then apparent. No man holds better reasons in his mind for becoming president of Harvard University than does Summerfield Baldwin--but are those the reasons which can satisfy Harvard? All flippancy aside, and one can best combat the flippancy of a burst of bromides such as these excerpts from the sensational meanderings of a mind with a grudge against the History Department with words of a kindred lack of seriousness, the Presidency of Harvard University is a position based on positive values. The list of Menchenisms of Mr. Baldwin are negative values. Those who could be content with...
Courageous, chivalrous, when he ran for the first of his three Congressional terms seven years ago he talked from a wheel chair, said of his opponent: "No knightlier spirit than Edgar Watkins ever went to worthy combat or shivered lance at Camelot or Stirling." Himself lost in Camelot's misty lore, Knight Upshaw may often think in terms of questing a Holy Grail...