Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of mules and in spite of poor housing conditions, the doughboy must eat. "No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer," said the lewd but shrewd General John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. As everyone knows, the U. S. Army gets no beer from the Government. As for the beef-very little of that can be bought with a daily per capita food appropriation of 35c. (The Navy is allowed...
...been circularizing doctors and dog owners with descriptions of a serum to immunize dogs against rabies, such serums are injected into the dog and protect him in the same way as the proper serums protect humans against typhoid fever or smallpox. This was one of the means used to fight the recent rabies situation in Louisville, Ky. (TIME, Dec. 27). But useful as is the serum, the literature has been causing a mild hysteria about "mad dogs" across the country...
...virture of a four to one victory over the Milton Squash Racquets Club, on Saturday afternoon the University second team has become an important factor in the fight for the state title in Class B. The Freshmen squash players defeated the Chestnut Hill five by the same count in their third successive victory of the season...
...drive for funds now staged by the Anti-Saloon League. At a meeting in a Boston Church Rev. William, Harmon van Allen pleaded for contributions of from ten to one hundred dollars partly as a thank-offering to God for the blessings of Prohibition, and partly to fight, "any conspiracy of pocketbooks empty bottles, or of bums" who should make attempt at repeal the Volstead Act in 1928. So far as can be learned no specific mention was made as to the use of these funds. It is not vitally needed for propaganda; the Anti-Saloon League profits...
...many cults, though, thank-offerings to God are used for the support of His priests. We harbour an uncomfortable suspicion that a large part of the earnings of the Anti-Saloon League are used not to fight Rum but rather the wolves from the doors of Wayne B. Wheeler and his fellow pioneers of abstinence...