Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed the Parliamentary commission of investigation, went on to combat, with varying success, the inadequate funds, irresponsibility and chaos that marked the Navy of Charles...
...unanimous vote the Minor Sports Council last night decided to stand as a body behind a resolution for the retention of all minor sports on the H.A.A.'s budget. John Dorman '36, president of the Council, opened the meeting by stating that the only effective method to combat the proposed cut in the athletic program was unified action, and then read the measure he had drawn...
...This is due less to his own shortcomings than to the curiosities of the story. Investigating the means whereby the Queen of France (Rosamond Pinchot) retrieves a brooch injudiciously entrusted to an English admirer, it reveals D'Artagnan as an incompetent young cavalier whose headlong efforts to combat an international intrigue are successful only because the villainess treats him with uncalled for generosity and because Athos (Paul Lukas), Porthos (Moroni Olsen) and Aramis (Onslow Stevens ) interest themselves in drying him behind the ears. Good sequence: the three musketeers overtaking the coach in which Milady de Winter (Margot Grahame...
...relief, "gathered around a campfire while Mr. Hoiberg talked to them of the purpose of their camps. He stressed the fact that every person should study social and economic problems in these days; should attempt to discover the causes of our present plight, and then should help to combat the evils. An attempt will be made, Mr. Hoiberg said, to teach personal enrichment in leisure time...
Holy Cross and Harvard students took little part in the combat--probably their spirit has already been sapped by the insidious radicalism of pre-Oath teaching. Only outsiders, unexposed to cowardly rationalism, were eager to do or die for the dear old College and the dear old Flag. These heroes fought the good fight and went home with spirits uplifted, eyes inflamed, and noses bloody. The Cambridge police eventually intervened, although civilization would have been better served had the carnage continued, with more spirits elevated, more eyes blackened, and more noses smashed...