Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regulars. In the line the play of the ends and the tackles defensively will be the deciding factors. The ends have no Cagle to worry about this year but they have an array of backs to watch, and the most deceptive offensive system in the country to combat. In the backfield the manner in which the understudies execute the lateral pass will be one of the deciding factors of the game. But Harvard's chief threat lies in the new plays that have been designed especially for Army and the judgment and resourcefulness Wood shows in calling them
...well thank God and the Legal Aid Society when he finds himself in difficulties, but under ordinary circumstances the most salient inadequacies in the field of law are not concerned with any lack of legal talent, or to be more accurate, advice. At the present rate of progress, mortal combat stands a far better chance of becoming the popular method of setting disputes than does court procedure What person in his right mind wants to wait some three years in order to carry a grievance before a magistrate who has bought his appointment only to be told that...
...Perkins has served as executive officer, engineer, or president of various railways, and as adviser on terminal matters to many cities. During the war he was manager and director of Light Combat Railways for the A. E. F. He is now a Colonel in the Officers Reserve Corps, commanding the 327th Combat Engineers. He has been decorated by the United States with the D.S.M., and by Great Britain with the order of St. Michael and St. George...
...bombing plane flying 170 m.p.h. at an altitude of 15,000 ft. would be over London dropping its bombs just ten minutes after it passed the English coast. Most combat planes now in use would take at least 16 minutes to climb 15,000 ft. from the ground. The Royal Air Force has at least one type of day bomber, the Hawker Hart with a secret steam-cooled engine, capable of a maximum speed of 187 m.p.h. So has France, so has Italy.* To counteract these speedy bombers British planemakers have designed four types of "interceptors," 200 m.p.h. single-seat...
...racket, says he, is essentially an economic phenomenon: "The racket is but another of the devices the American nation has invented to combat the antimonopoly laws. It should not be considered from any other angle. . . . Its real nature is economic and that truth shall be demonstrated with increasingly frequent force...