Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon Pelletier of Queens Village have been married 50 years. Mr. & Mrs. John Staudt Jr. have been married seven months. They and 498 other couples renewed their marriage vows at the behest of their pastor, Rev. Bernard J. Reilly. He thought up the idea a year ago to combat unrest and separation, believes it unique...
...only one half an inch thick and the mortar has dried and fallen from its position, leaving the concrete beneath to the exposure of the weather which has already started to rot the inner section of the pillars. Expensive major repairs have been found necessary in order to combat the decay which has set in on these comparatively new structures. As has been the case with the majority of the repairs of a similar nature which have been found in University buildings, the work has been undertaken by the Maintenance Department at the cost of the University...
...game is much cleaner than it used to be. There were fewer officials and fewer rules concerning roughness. Coaches were forced to teach their players 'dirty football' so that they would know how to combat it when an opponent resorted to slugging and kicking. It was a case of self-protection, and, if you failed to protect yourself, you would be incapacitated in a surprisingly short time. I had my nose broken in the first game of every season, and it wasn't because of an accident either. I played half one season with three broken ribs and finished...
...Army weekend, a small group, which represents a bare majority of the Liberal Club, has arranged a monster program, intended to combat war. To start the proceedings, it has decided to hold a mass-meeting on Boston Common this Saturday morning, for the discussion of the path to peace; at the meeting, "The Horror of It," a collection of choice photos of corpses and the like, will be sold. This gathering, it is said will be an intercollegiate affair; at least, some Wellesley students are expected to attend. Afterwards, if the plan goes through, there will be another meeting...
...always illustrations of the same theme: the sportsman caught in an unsportingly tight place and, with various versions of the Hemingway stiff upper lip, taking it like a sportsman. The motto on his title-page states his creed more explicitly than before: "Unlike all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory; nor, if he win far enough, shall there be any reward within himself...