Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House let the Senators fight it out, this session, and a long fight it was. California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...
...Repealing the tax on foreign-built yachts 10,000 Reducing the $6 tax on retail druggists who sell narcotics, to $3. 150,000 Total reductions $225,295,000 INCREASES Withholding at source taxes due from nonresident stockholders $ 2,000,000 A new 25% tax on prize fight tickets of $5 or more 750,000 A new duty on foreign-built yachts 50,000 Total increases $2,800,000 Net tax reduction $222,495,000 Until near the close of the House-Senate conferences, it appeared that Senators Norris, Couzens, et al. might revive in come tax publicity by a provision...
...these harsh terms, 200 Methodist preachers in Los Angeles, Calif., protested the plan to have onetime heavyweight champion (1919-26) Jack Dempsey, box in an exhibition fight of which the receipts would be used to prevent foreclosure upon the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church...
...harmful to persons bitten by venomous snakes." The alcohol acts first as a stimulant, speeding up the circulation, quickly distributing the poison through the body. When the effect wears off it becomes a depressant, lowering the victim's resistance, hindering him from using all his natural forces to fight the poison. Exactly the opposite results are imperative. The poison must be prevented from circulating: this is accomplished by a tourniquet above the bite, in first aid; the natural resistance must be fostered by rest and anti-ophidic serum...
Outpaced by a brilliant Columbia light-weight crew from the opening gun of the American Henley race for 150-pound boats on the Schuylkill River last Saturday, the Crimson oarsmen lagged behind in the wake to fight for secondary position with Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Pulling sluggishly in the final quarter-mile, the Harvard entry took the wash of the three other shells and brought up the rear a length behind the Eli eight...