Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible emphasis to the letter appearing in your issue of June 13, and signed by Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse of London, His insinuation that "the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank. . . found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight" is a foul and slanderous...
...pole vault, will lead a field of three entries in that event. Harrington of the B. A. A. and Libby of Dartmouth being his rivals. A ten mile race is also planned in which four leading American marathoners are entered. Miles and Hanigan of the B. A. A. will fight it out in this race with Michelson of the Cygnet A. C., and Koski of the Finnish-American...
...circumstance, though verified by all human experience, a bitter taunt comes to mind and seems justified. It frets my soul to think that the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank, who with invincible logic found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight, should with homely eloquence in 1927 find themselves too proud to learn to read and write...
...disputes between U. S. settlers in the northwest and the (British) Hudson's Bay Co. became critical when the Democrats made their campaign slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight"-meaning that Oregon should extend north to 54° 40' and include about half of what is now British Columbia and Alberta, provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The Democrats won the election, did not get the "fifty-four forty" line (it was settled at 49°) and also did not fight, having on their hands the Mexican...
...second volume Hans Castorp comes down in time to fight in the World War. He is scarcely conscious of the masque in which he has been an actor. Yet he is no longer a total blank as on his arrival. He has listened to Settembrini talking democratic politics. Peeperkorn, who has won Madame Chauchat and dominated Castorp with the rest, is the first...