Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane on one side of which is painted a number unknown to the hound-pilots. The hare is given a five-minute start, is limited to county boundaries. Hounds try to corner the hare, then get within reading distance of the secret number-a maneuver requiring dogfight combat tactics...
...even in the children. According to their own ethics they are completely justified in ignoring the plight of the operators who have faced insuperable difficulties on account of the growing use of substitutees for coal. In the same spirit the capitalists feel no compunctions in employing every means to combat the miners, even to the subversion of police power. Neither side considers the problem intelligently, and the only egress from the resulting impasse is afforded when one group reaches the limits of its resources...
...make it, nevertheless can the members of the Club consider themselves liberal if they affiliate with an organization which has such definite preconceived ideas? Can they affiliate with an organization which feels that "democracy under capitalism is a myth"? And can they affiliate with an organization which proposes to combat the short-sighted leadership and the false policies "of those organizations based upon a philosophy of social reform and pacifism...
Overcoming an eight tally lead gained in the first inning, with a smashing four run rally in the final chapter, the second year team defeated the third year veterans, 17-16, in the first annual Harvard Law Review combat yesterday afternoon on Cambridge Commons...
...seamy side of war is something which the army of no nation can afford to have extensively advertised. Most governments suppress all official photographs which would give their citizens a visual idea of the bloody horror of actual combat and thus build up a mass repugnance to fighting. That the U. S., for all its diplomatic efforts towards peace, is no exception to this fundamental military rule was revealed last week when George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, tried unsuccessfully to get the War Department's permission to print some of its Signal Corps photographs other than those glorifying...