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Word: combatting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Right guard Dave Glueck was the only member of the "A" team hors do combat; he is only slightly bumped and will be set within a day or two. With the exception of Ben Smith, bucker who relieved Cohen for only a few moments, Harlow ordered no scrimmaging for Saturday game players. He had Frank Foley, Bob Burnett, and Austie Harding do some kicking in the stadium and then put the Varsity through some dummy scrimmaging against Cornell plays...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: PESSIMISM REIGNS AS HARLOWMEN GET SET FOR CORNELL | 10/4/1938 | See Source »

...Britain's employers are organized into parallel groups: industrial associations formed first to combat, later to bargain with, the labor unions. There are 266 general employer associations, 1,550 locals. At the top is a National Confederation of Employers' Organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: How Britain Does It | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Although President Cárdenas does not want to wipe out the priest or the Church as have some of his predecessors, the job of his village teachers is to combat the in fluence of those "propagators of superstition," the village priests. Individualists and pious Mexicans make things hot for the President's idealistic school teachers. Twenty-five have been murdered so far this year. The peasants have developed a fondness for cutting off the ears of teach ers they do not care to murder. So the President's teachers all tote guns, and frequently have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plows Plus Rifles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Theory of sting-treatment is based on the nonspecific protein principle. Arthritis is due to some poisonous protein, as yet undefined. The body stores up certain protein-digesting compounds which combat all poisonous proteins. An injection of foreign protein stimulates production of more defensive substances or enhances their strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bee Sting | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...National Social Christian Party of Adrien Arcand has found a happy home in Quebec. Leader Arcane! is publisher of Montreal's new Fascist party organ Le Combat National, editor of L'Illustration Nouvelle, semi-official organ of Premier Maurice Duplessis' Provincial Government, and his Jew-baiting, corporatist teachings have fallen on approving ears in Canada's most conservative spot. But Leader Arcand has long aspired to become a national as well as a provincial politician, so last week he scheduled Canada's first national Fascist convention for Kingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Fascist Meet | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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