Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Educator Help to Combat Crime?", Professor F. B. Sayre of the Law School; "The Importance of Education during the First Decade", Dr. D. A. Thom, Habit Clinics, Boston; and "The Responsibilities of the Public School", Professor F. E. Spaulding, Yale University...
...lure some $1,300,000,000 in currency out of mattresses, old teapots, chimney corners and safety deposit boxes was Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. For a fortnight Col. Knox had been busily creating what he named the Citizens' Reconstruction Organization to combat hoarding. Chairmen were appointed in all twelve Federal Reserve Bank districts. Each State and city was organized for a great educational drive commencing this week...
...strange as the sight of a member of the Union League club demonstrating a tap-dance were these lines in the august New York Times fortnight ago: "Five planes brought dozens of machine gats from Chicago Friday to combat The Town's Capone. . . . Local banditti have made one hotel a virtual arsenal and several hotspots are ditto because Master Coll is giving them the headache. One of the better Robin Hoods has a private phone in his cell...
Owing to the cancellation of the match, with M.I.T. which was stated for the early part of this week, the Dartmouth combat will be the first intercollegiate test this season for the University fencers. Although the exact calibre of the New Hampshire team is unknown, it is anticipated that if will offer strong opposition...
Although present day civilization is too eager in its cannonization of the pronouncements of specialists there is much of good in the contemporary tendency to examine all things with intensity. The medical profession furnishes many recognized examples of progress in the combat against disease, as in the case of tuberculosis. Whatever success has been attained has resulted from highly specialized study. The present day standards of living, too, are memorials of long studies which began much in the same way as Boston University has chosen to inaugurate a systematic and scholarly construction of defenses against depression...