Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics pointed out that boxers find "the crown and the honors" of victorious combat pleasant, but that "receiving the blows they do is painful and annoying to flesh and blood," he expressed an attitude toward pugilism that has been held by most of the writing men since his day. The 37 authors whose fragmentary observations are included in Boxing in Art and Literature seem as a rule to approach it with a strange air of mingled respect and disdain, as if striving to find some intellectual justification for the pains and punishments they describe...
...honor of all parties. In the political duel which began month ago before the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs over the honor of the Virgin Islands, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings followed the ancient code. They joined the combat in support of their respective principals, Virgin Islands Governor Paul M. Pearson, accused of maladministration, and Virgin Islands Judge T. Webber Wilson, accused of sabotaging Governor Pearson's administration. Hardly had the seconds exchanged a round of vituperation when the affair was brought abruptly to a halt (TIME. July...
...infantile paralysis is most concentrated. But let not North Carolinians deceive themselves concerning the seriousness of the epidemic, which has affected 61 of the State's 100 Counties and spread into Virginia. Since May 1, 297 cases have been reported in North Carolina, of whom 18 died. To combat the epidemic North Carolina's State epidemiologist. Dr. Joseph Clyde Knox, has advised against children attending summer schools. President Roosevelt's good friend. Dr. Leroy Watkins Hubbard of the Warm Springs Infantile Paralysis Sanatorium, has gone from Georgia to help Epidemiologist Knox. as have Drs. Warren Palmer Dearing and Alexander Gordon...
...must inevitably arrive at devaluation, and such an operation has not been undertaken in any country without decree powers being accorded to the government. Tomorrow you will have to grant full power to a government destined to prepare devaluation; today you can give it to a government which will combat devaluation...
Last week he took the single-seater experimental fighter to the Navy's proving ground at Dahlgren, Va. for final acceptance tests. Carefully "beefed up" to withstand the terrific strain of power dives and pullouts, the ship was built to outperform and outfight any combat plane in existence. Gehlbach took it up 12,000 ft., kicked it over into a tight spin. The plane never came...