Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trust that the Editor will continue to maintain the latest high standard in his fight for truth and that he will refuse to be bull-dozed by those insidious "interests...
...There will be no stable government in China for a hundred years. By that time the money will all be gone and the bandits who make up the armies will have nothing left to fight...
...title at stake is usually necessary nowadays to make a prizefight notable. Weight and power are usually necessary to make a fight exciting. Yet Eastern ring-watchers felt they had had a good evening last week after observing the earnest efforts of two little untitled men to knock each other out in ten rounds of fighting which looked, from the rim of the Bronx coliseum in which it took place, like a black ant and a dark-haired mosquito battering at each other...
...suit him better. When he entered the U. S. a few months ago, he had no fame, although in Havana he had won 100 amateur bouts and knocked out 46 of his spidery opponents. In Manhattan his first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than he can count, and his suits of clothes are said to number 365, all of them eminently visible of cut and shade. Even in his training camp he likes to change his clothes several times...
Although Dr. Thomas T. Shields, Trustee-President of (Baptist) Des Moines University won, last fortnight, his re-election and whelming trustee-support in his fight against dismissed University President Harry C. null one thing worried him. When he expelled President Wayman because he seemed to be a modernist, Des Moines students had thrown eggs, rocks. (TIME, May 20.) The police had to interfere to shield Dr. Shields and the University's loyal-to-Shields Secretary, Miss Edith Rebman. Now Dr. Shields had to return to Des Moines from a Baptist Bible Union convention in Buffalo and he was worried...