Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years higher education in Oregon has resembled a dogfight. In 1929 Oregon statesmen decided to end the long, bitter rivalry between University of Oregon at Eugene and Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis by lumping them with the State's three normal schools in one big happy family. Their curious method of furthering this pacification was to appoint William Jasper Kerr, longtime President of Oregon State, to be Chancellor of the new setup...
...Sequel to this dogfight came in the testimony of a handsome brunette named Elsie Walker who said that a Cities Service Co. undercover agent had planted her in Frank Parish's office. She explained that the agent had promised to help her out of certain financial difficulties if she would crib information from Frank Parish's business correspondence. She got a job in his office in August 1930 and for over a year stuffed carbon copies of his letters into a zipper compartment of her purse. Juicy bits of information were forwarded to Cities Service by means...
...years the world-at-large has forgotten how mad it was. Last week those who still had eyes to see and ears to hear were treated to the most dispassionate analysis yet rendered of how and why the U. S. was gradually sucked into Europe's dogfight. Even some statesmen now agree that the War was a bad job, ill conceived and worse executed; plain men every-where have long ago decided that its causes were not so simple nor its aims so noble as they were once given to believe. Author Millis, analyst of war psychology, who showed...
...Lines and to a lesser extent from Il Duce's Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late great Lord Inchcape's mighty Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. World's largest steamship company, P. & O. operates almost two million tons of shipping, chiefly over the Empire route to India, the Far East and Australasia...
...hare is a 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...