Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schlageter was no 'hurrah' patriot. He wanted no war. He wanted peace as all Germany wants peace. But he was ready to defend his home and the peace of his people. He became a fighter because this peace had been broken...
...Next come two wingless courtier castes, also fertile, which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These two castes are sterile and of both sexes, unlike ants whose females do all the work and fighting...
Morgan was primarily a land fighter. His plan was to cripple Spain's power in the Caribbean by raiding and destroying her chief ports. He sacked successively Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, Gibraltar, Panama City. When he stormed the last defences of Porto Bello he forced captured monks and nuns to carry the scaling ladders; it tickled him to see the Spaniards forced to shoot down their sacred compatriots. At the fight at Matasnillos the Spaniards stampeded 1,500 bulls against the buccaneers: Morgan's men indulged in no matadorean antics, routed the bulls with a musket volley...
Baseball fights used to be common in the days when most ball players were uneducated yokels. Nowadays they are rare. Last really celebrated baseball fighter was famed Ty Cobb, who taught Pitcher Whitehill the technique when Whitehill joined Detroit in 1923. Although crowds enjoy imbroglios like last week's and though at- tendance is usually increased by such incidents, club-owners feel that in the long run they harm the game. Feuds between clubs are likely to last a long time. Last week's fight was really an aftermath of a squabble last summer when Carl Reynolds...
...agreed to call off further demonstrations for a week, Mayor Kelly assuring him that he was trying to get the Illinois Legislature to put teeth in tax-collection laws. Later, teachers applauded when Leader Fewkes told them: "I am willing to go along with Mayor Kelly. He is a fighter. He didn't tremble when he was talking to us as some of the so-called bigwigs did." Next day Leader Fewkes and his committee were to have had lunch with the "bigwigs" at the swank Union League Club. But they changed their minds and let the bankers (including...