Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern times"- was recognized by many admiring people throughout the world (TiME, Mar. 7). Your tribute to the memory of this great, good man was to publish an article under the head EDUCATION, in which you pictured an attic recluse spending his leisure hours in demoniac glee watching spiders fight. The article reminds us of President Coolidge's Washington's Birthday address in which our worthy President took little cognizance of the truly great things that our First President embodied, and centred his attention on the incidental fact that Washington was a good businessman. Ask the writers...
Sirs: As a member of the Society of Friend- may I make a small protest against calling anyone a "Quaker Devildog," or one who fought in 22 wars and is off to another fight "a sturdy Quaker" "We utterly deny all outward wars for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever," a testimony issued in 1660 has been followed consistently by an unbroken succession of such declarations through all wars since. It does not jibe somehow with your statement. Once I heard someone introduce Smedley Butler's father, the Congressman, as a Quaker, and he hastily denied it, saying...
...Chicago Tribune, potent newspaper, knowing that the best scheme to maintain prestige is to fight for principle, last week invented another for which it will (editorially) battle: Purchase of Western Railroads by Western Investors.* Thus, while President Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and Harry Byram of the reorganized Milwaukee (old name: St. Paul) stump the west concerning the merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means...
...Johnson-Jeffries fight. (Black Jack Johnson...
...tour of the prominent newstands of the Square brought forth some interesting facts on undergraduate taste in periodical literature. The most popular magazine is the "Saturday Evening Post", even though its stories have to fight for breath in a sea of advertisements for hosiery, automobiles, and canned soup. "Liberty", in spite of its attempts at publicity, sells only one copy to every three of the "Saturday Evening Post", although it leads the other prominent weeklies, the "Nation" and the "New Republic", those two tin pins sticking into the fleshy side of conservatism...