Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity was abolished after a bitter fight by vote...
Miners and operators have announced their intention of fighting to the finish. There is no one, except the Pennsylvania legislature or Congress, that can actually force them to stop. And from a political standpoint interference is crammed with dangers. It looked last week as if the parties directly concerned would have opportunity for their finish fight, with themselves and Pennsylvania as the chief sufferers...
...teach more than three children without a license. On the strength of that, Fascist police raid our homes and carry off German books, even fairy tales, because they charge that mothers with more than three children have been teaching them German without a license. Naturally we fight back against measures like these...
...Colonel took off his uniform and left the Army for good. His friends expect him to continue as a civilian his fight for changes in the Air Service. Some conjecture that he will go into politics, start lecturing, go animal hunting in far and dark continents...
...were trying to rescue Italy from her "misgovernment." Then the War precipitated a crisis ip which the Socialists wanted international "peace at any price," whereas Mussolini eventually came to feel that the national glory of Italy demanded that she should fight?expand. He rushed off to fight. He obeyed an officer who commanded him to fire "just once more" a trench-mortar which he had warned the officer was unsafe. The mortar burst. Mussolini sustained 42 serious wounds, nearly died, lived to see Italy, although "victorious," slump into a period of post-War depression, discontent and unrest from which...