Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most evenly matched pair of the contest were Locke of Harvard and Burke of Tech., heavyweights, who were forced to fight out their match through six extra periods, when Burke won by a time advantage of 2 minutes 14 seconds...
...subject will be one which has aroused much interest, especially at Harvard, namely the losing fight of culture against business. The wording reads: "Resolved, That this house views with alarm the present tendency of Eastern colleges to stress a standard of business and professional utility in education...
...ordinary citizen is content to refute the pacifist by the Johnsonian argument of knocking him down, but all intelligent men, including, tentatively, college men, must admit that much more important problems of psychological morality lie back of the question, "To fight or not to fight?" Dr. Richards will speak tonight on some of these problems as they must be met by Christians...
Senator Oddie (Republican): "It was a virile speech and shows that he is full of fight-something that the Senate needs...
...returned, dead tired, to his house from the Diet, five men called, demanded to see the Premier. A secretary appeared, told the visitors that the Premier was tired, too tired to see them. Whereupon the five men fell upon the secretary. Servants in the offing joined in the fight. A policeman rushed in; another rushed to a telephone. A few minutes later, arrived 20 more bobbies. The fight promptly ended. The five men were taken to the nearest police station, examined, proved to be agitators employed by reactionaries to coerce the Premier into abandoning the Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill...