Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army Wants. Besides the 2,320 planes already planned, including 1,710 planes now on hand, the 3,800 new planes which the Army hopes to get out of this appropriation would make the Air Corps the primary combat arm of the Army, centring tactical emphasis upon it as never before...
Storm signals from across the seas give Hollywood an excuse to present a new version of "Dawn Patrol," first presented in 1930. The war drama, now at the Metropolitan, combines the usual thrills of aerial combat with a psychological study of a junior officer's hatred for his superior. Between too frequent shots of Errol Flynn's frank; boyish face, there are healthy little sermons about "the criminal lunatics sitting around a big table." For although Basil Rathbone does a good job as the villain, Mars is the real villain. The "poor man's war" angle is unconvincingly put forward...
...Discrimination in occupational advertisements is sharpest against Jewish salesmen, white-collar workers, women stenographers. To combat it, many Jewish girls have taken to wearing crosses "as a protective charm...
...Largest of living invertebrates are the giant squids. In the early 19th Century a sea captain brought on board his ship fragments of such a giant which showed it to have been 50 ft. long, not including the ten arms. Scars of combat with giant squids have been found on the hides of whales. Largest of known insects, extinct for 170,000,000 years, had a wingspread of 2 ft. 6 in. Largest of known arthropods was Pterygotus, 9 ft. long, which faintly resembled a lobster and roamed on the Silurian sea bottoms of 350,000,000 years...
Feeling ran high in the Eliot-Dunster game, and hard, base running almost resulted in several players being put hors de combat. In the absence of ace pitcher Madey, Joe Stern was called on for mound duty for the Elephant, while the Funsters used Roger Kinnincutt. Red Lee of Eliot led the Hitters with two doubles. The Funsters had the bases full and only one out with the score tied in the last of the seventh, but snappy Eliot fielding forced the game...