Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams House Junior Varsity crew seems to have solved two of the major problems that bother crew coaches. To combat the evil of the boat checking this crew has taken a leaf from the manufacturers of multi-cylinder automobiles. They believe that if there is always at least one oar in the water delivering power, the boat won't have a chance to check--hence the crew's name. "Perpetual Commotion." Likewise, to counteract the ill effects of individual oarsmen rolling out, all eight men loan out both at the catch and the recovery, thereby assuring a perfect...
...down immigration irregularities, turn up alien wrongdoers. Famed for their relentlessness are the Post Office Department inspectors, prepared to spend a day or a lifetime bringing to justice mail robbers, perpetrators of postal frauds. The Treasury has a bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income tax intelligence unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs Act, in the State Department to trace passport frauds, in the Interior Department to detect crimes committed on Indian reservations...
...Compiled by Dr. Joseph Yu. head of Shanghai's Nantao Clinic, it presents 87 pages of war pictures which Dr. Yu took with a Brownie, seven pages of advertisements (venereal cures, toothpastes, virility drugs, sun lamps). Because doctors work behind the lines, there are no pictures of actual combat, many of the wounded. Sample caption, in English & Chinese: "The Wounded Receiving Eatables...
Chief among the articles appearing in the April issue of the Harvard Law Review is "Trial by Combat and the New Deal" by Thurman W. Arnold, Professor of Law at Yale...
...routine sermon on the evils of birth-control, pointed directly to the U. S.: "If the declining birthrate continues at its present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There are in the U. S. 11,500,000 Negroes of extraordinary fecundity. . . . The yellow peril is nothing. We will encounter an Africanized America, in which the white race will end by being suffocated by the fertile grandsons of Uncle Tom. Are we to see within...