Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Department of Agriculture entomologists declared this the worst grasshopper year since 1880. In Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Illinois the damage seemed likely to run close to $100,000,000. To combat the pests the U. S. Government was laying out about $1,350,000 and contributions to the war chest by State and local governments brought the total to some...
...effect of the Scopes trial was to instill a burning determination to combat ignorance and bigotry in a wispy, grey, mild-mannered man named Ludwig Erwin Katterfeld. Born 56 years ago in Strasbourg, which was then German, Ludwig Katterfeld arrived in the U. S., worked on a Nebraska farm, graduated from a college in Kansas where he majored in sociology. He got interested in labor problems, joined the Socialist party, rose to a position of some influence, acted as a circulation executive for several left-wing publications. Meanwhile he made a living as a salesman. Now his crusade for scientific...
...Angeles Junior College [TIME, May 31], you must have been impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape to further reduce their "biting power," and also instructed...
...world, one flesh and one devil which we must combat or flee. Today there are many--many at least in appearances; one devil at the bottom of them all, perhaps, if your theology inclines you so to state the case of man's ever-recurring ills. Each worlds has its own formulas, its own incantations, its own tests of conformity, its own methods of excommunication. In some lands the more independent spirits are physically coerced if the social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing...
...combat the forces of conformity one can rely only on oneself. To escape the claims of the outer world one must first have come to terms with the problems of his own inner life. The courage and fortitude necessary to maintain even a slight degree of independence are not to be found in the hearts of those of little faith. To your own satisfaction you must have answered that most devastating of human questions,--why? "And be not conformed to this world" says the text, but why? St. Paul's answer is given by the remainder of the verse...