Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown aggregation was severely handicapped by lack of practice, and taking this into account the Bruins put up a creditable fight. The Harvard players exhibited an excellent style of play, their passing ability being unusual for a team with as little seasoning as they have...
...dominate. Working quietly as always, Mr. Insull intrenched himself early and deep. But his operations eventually awakened such utility companies as the Boston Edison to look around and consolidate, to form the New England Power Association and other companies, to employ such brains as Graustein of Graustark to fight Invader Insull and mine New England's White Gold themselves. Hydroelectric Minute Men, they set out to meet Mr. Insull with his own weapons. He had newspapers. They acquired the Herald and Traveler...
...Against American automotive competition, Europe has just begun to fight!" Thus, vehemently, cried Minister of Commerce Anton Novak last week to Czech and Slovak motorists assembled in Prague for the inauguration of the Czechoslovak Automobile Club. Today U. S.-made cars imported into the Republic total more than one-third the number of cars produced within Czechoslovakia. Against this influx Czechoslovakia is struggling Piccolo withher home-made cars, the littlePiccolo Six ($800), the Zetka Six ($1,000), Tatra Two, Four orSix (top price $1,200), Praga Eight ($8,000 to $10,000), and the Skoda Eight ($8,000), made...
Rumania's Queen Marie and U. S. Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney were separately applauded spectators at a bull fight last week in Madrid. Spanish newspapers passionately denied earlier reports (TIME, April 8) that Mr. Tunney, at a private show, killed a bull with one sword-stroke...
John Drinkwater, English poet-playwright (Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln), arrived in the U. S. last week to see the opening of his latest play and first comedy, Bird in Hand, on Broadway (see p. 16). Waylaid by ship-news reporters, Author Drinkwater said: 1) That he would fight Prohibition if it threatened England; 2) That the U. S. has no recent or contemporary figure dramatically as large as Lee or Lincoln, although "Woodrow Wilson might make a good play;" 3) That talking cinema shows are not worth talking about...