Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common ground. That there should be some assembly whose function would be to discuss and criticize matters that come up for censorship, submitting at least an advisory opinion to the body in which the actual power is vested, has become manifest. It is probably too much to hope that...
...went with Company H, 1st Territorial Volunteer Infantry, to fight in the Spanish...
...great, big get-together . . . mingling in friendly contact . . . learning the difficulties with which each other has to contend . . . comradeship . . . better understanding . . . engaged in a fight for a common cause...
...chief concern to the retail druggists was how to fight chain stores and whether a store can sell books, caviar, lamps, vases and still fill prescriptions reliably. One figure that pleased the druggists was that 30 out of 100 druggists survive in business compared to eight grocers...
...York that a fighter who is champion in his class must renounce his title before trying for the championship in a heavier class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began to walk along the side of the ring, holding onto...