Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cornell Sun, which in March of this year began its now rewarded fight for the experiment, is to be congratulated. In its present tentativeness, however, the Cornell plan has left just beyond reach the greater usefulness that Harvard, from results attained, has come to expect of a reading period...
...after crushing blow with a mailed fist constituted by 5,000 Japanese troops which he recently brought up from the seaport of Tsingtao (TIME, May 14). When 6,000 desperate Chinese took refuge in the old walled quarter of Tsinan, last week, and later attempted with great bravery to fight their way out, Japanese machine gunners mowed down every man of 20 successive Chinese charges which were launched by the besieged...
Miss Ling Nyi Vee, Chinese student of Wesleyan College at Macon, Ga.. made a non-stop flight from Macon to Shanghai in 24 hours. Alone above the Pacific Ocean she had only crackers and pickles with which to fight hunger. She was forced to fly so high that her radio messages were frozen. When she reached Shanghai she was given a tremendous and well-deserved reception...
...work of the Rockefeller Foundation is concerned chiefly with public health. Last year, relief centers were established in the Mississippi flood area; Brazil was aided in a fight against yellow fever; hookworm was brought under control in 19 countries; the Peking Union Medical College was supported; $2,000,000 was given toward a new medical centre for the University of London; and the globe was dotted with Rockefeller health workers...
...Lampooners put up a game fight, but from the moment when Mayor Jimmy Walker, or at least some one who thought he looked like Jimmy, threw out the first ball they never had a chance. Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, started the game in the box but being somewhat erratic was soon replaced by Philip Hichborn '29. Hichborn found the going under foot somewhat slippery but on the whole did very creditably...