Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in many a year, nobody outside the coal industry cared what happened to the coal people. But however languid and reluctant the miners, however nonchalant the operators, the fight is one to the death...
...while Socialists control many a public purse string, the royal gambols are distinctly gambles. Only after long haggling did the City Council of Glasgow decide, by a lean majority, to entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George, V & Mary will dine privately with the Lord Provost of Glasgow on July...
...correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight Chiang? Great battles between them seemed inevitable last week, but it was probable that their secret agents were even then chaffering and hornswoggling in an effort to patch up terms whereby the Nationalists may be confirmed as masters of all China below the Yangtze river, with Chang Tso-lin remaining supreme...
Harvard has been slow to encourage and aid enthusiasts of glove and canvas despite a steadily increasing interest shown during the past few years. The chief objection to boxing as a form of intercollegiate activity has emanated from the stigma attached to the professional "fight" game, and the fear that unfriendly feeling among rival spectators would be aroused and fostered by the sight of men "fighting" in the ring. Opposition to the sport on the grounds that it lends itself to instances of brutality and unnecessary injury to the participants is to be considered less seriously. These evils...
When the Harvard cases finally do come up, the defense will have a larger array of witnesses than before with which to fight the issue. The trial, however, will not be so involved inasmuch as there are fewer defendants than formerly...