Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...describing happenings at the Tunney-Dempsey Fight you speak of a gentleman who stood up-sat down-and placed his flask beside him. Is that the act of a gentleman ? Could you not, with better propriety, have used the word "man" ? It is like some of our Sport writers who speak of "customers" instead of spectators at our various athletic games...
Extra-constitutional powers were accorded the Executive Council to levy a special assessment on the 3,000,000 members of the A. F. of L., in order to create a huge fund with which to fight company unions and shop representative schemes. A resolution announced...
...they temporized, then found courage for battle ebbing. Next day the supremacy of Joseph Stalin stood once more unquestioned as the press of Russia blazoned a humble testiment of submission signed by Trotzky, Zinoviev, Kamenev: "We consider it our duty to openly recognize before the party that in the fight for our views we and our followers on a number of occasions permitted ourselves to take steps which are in violation of party discipline and which tend to split the party...
Coach Jess Hawley's final statement of the game just before leaving Hanover was. "It will undoubtedly be a very touch game. Harvard is primed for the encounter and we have got to fight hard...
...Whitbeck '27, captain of last year's tennis team, is a favorite in a meet that has been marked by several upsets. The best three out of five sets at Jarvis Field will decide the finalists today. Three veterans and a sellar Freshman player will fight for the final bracket in the University's largest tournament. Whitbeck will meet Lenhart, while Gordon clashes with Ingraham...