Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three-year-old automobile. Average Mr. Gray visited Chicago last week. There he bought a picture postcard of his hotel, marked his window with a "X," mailed the card home. He wanted to see the Chicago park system, stock yards, municipal pier "and that stadium where the Dempsey-Tunney fight was held." He said: "Greatest American? Lindbergh, undoubtedly. Next President ? Oh, probably Charley Hughes. Locarno pact? What's that?" Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane took occasion to flay Mr. Gray: "He never reads the foreign news, just goes along through life very much like any chicken in his chicken yard...
...thrill at this threat? . . . What was our position in 1914? That position can come again and will come again unless all the American people unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon fight or a fight for European or Asiatic markets. No, it is a fight to reassert European, in reality German (the French and English have been duped) supremacy in chemistry and chemical progress and that means German military supremacy. . . . America will never join such a combine...
...failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where they wanted it," says fiercely indomitable Hildreth Carew, the present family leader. Eventually Bayliss, attracted no doubt by Elsa's passionate coolness towards him, desires her. "I don't want to fight with you-we've always done that-but I'd rather fight with you than love any other woman I've ever known. I didn't know that till I got away from you-till I had nothing but the memory of that faint blue vein...
...much a punitive measure as a shifting of responsibility, comes under the same category. The rominal discrepancies, arising from the differences between Mr. Wilbur's and the Admiral's points of view are, however, inessential; the chief idea is that General Mitchell, by keeping up the fight tried to arouse public interest in a matter of vital public concern, until the Government at length took some notice of the situation. If Admiral Magruder's present difficulties have a similar result he will be more than justified...
...spells she relieved her co-pilot at the levers. Two thirds of the way across, they veered still further south of their course to avoid a low pressure storm area. Then the oil presure fell. Part of the gasoline supply had been dumped to lighten the ship in its fight against the storm. They knew that their time was short...