Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to combat rising credit, the Republican administration must put controls on such financial outlets as savings banks, insurance companies, and pension funds," Harris said. "These agencies are not as easy to control as commercial banks," he added, "but we shall have to find ways of dealing with all such financial intermediaries...
...Unitarians, with the Presidency and the Chair of Divinity, Harvard's two most important single posts, at stake. After what one Fellow termed "as much intrigue ... as was ever practiced in the Vatican," Pearson's forces lost both positions, and Eliphalet resigned to help the newly founded Andover Theological combat Harvard's errors...
...central nervous system, that sets off radiation-induced vomiting. By cutting certain nerves in the upper abdomen that lead to the control center, he is able to prevent vomiting from radiation. If he can discover the cause of radiation-induced vomiting, a way may be found to combat death from radiation sickness...
...seem to be the most common personality trait of hypertensive people. More women than men suffer from the disorder. Although often gentle and apparently easygoing, they are filled with aggressive drives that they tightly restrain because of a need to please. Inwardly tense and suspicious, they are "mobilized for combat, but do not engage in it against the pertinent adversary." Many of them suffer from migraine headaches and other side symptoms. As children, they were frustrated...
Masters made good in and out of combat. His descriptions of camp and barracks life often seem trivial in detail, but in the end they tell what it was that kept generations of Englishmen in a service that had little to offer but comradeship, pride in outfit and a sense of duty. Masters does not pretty up military service, and he does not try to pretty up India. Yet he obviously loved them both and manages to convey the quality of his. affection. His story closes in 1939 when, at 25, he was still a lieutenant in an army that...