Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commission, who said that the country would go through the winter without a serious coal shortage and that New England would learn to use cheaper substitutes for hard coal; J. Hamilton Lewis, former "dude" Senator from Illinois, who found the President not at home, and told reporters that the fight for the Republican nomination in 1928 would be between Messrs. Hoover and Dawes; Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who called by invitation to discuss the funding of the Italian Debt (see CABINET) ; Commander John R. Mc-Quigg of the American Legion to tell the President what...
...Independent, reproduced in the Harvard Bulletin and other publications. He gives it as his frank opinion 'that the majority of college football players do not enjoy playing the game. There are, of course, a certain number of exceptions, but these are the men, I think, who would enjoy any fight.' But for the majority of players 'capacity for enjoyment of the game as a game is in many instances completely lost. It is only after the season is over that he can look back with any pleasure on what he has been through and then the feeling of pleasure...
...should face the facts. It is true that football is not enjoyed by the majority of players, then face the fact that it is not a sport for them but only for the professional coaches and the spectators. What the 50,000 spectators enjoy as a sport is the fight; they want to see their own particular college win. Probably not two per cent, of the spectators can recognize and appreciate what the plays are and how they are made (barring forward passes and punts...
...reach, and it is precisely these questions over which the court has no jurisdiction. Professor Hudson, one of the most ardent advocates of the League and the court, admits in his recent book that "It is chiefly with reference to non-juridical questions that nations are likely to fight. For the most part, the kind of case that comes before the courts, the kind of case that has come before the Permanent Court of Arbitration, for instance, is not the kind of case which leads to war"; and again, "It is true that the larger political questions about which nations...
...succeed in downing the rum ships, Rear Admiral Billard said: "Napoleon is reported to have said that 'in any military operation, the importance of personnel to material is three to one.' This I believe to be true, not only of operations in war, but also of the present determined fight that is being waged by the government to uphold the law. Any body of men actuated by high traditions and by the ingrained habit of doing their duty under all circumstances, and sustained by high morale, are bound to win out eventually in any task assigned to them if given...