Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Chafee recommended economic pressure on Germany to allow Jews to emigrate without being stripped of all their property, and said that our immigration quota should be enlarged. In conclusion he stated, "Whenever we meet intolerance in conversation, let's fight it; whenever we meet it in our own hearts, let's fight...
With a combination of nostalgia and sarcasm, he recalls the good old days when "we had 'fight talks' before every game and between the halves. We were pumped full of it, till we were ready to go out and die for dear old alma mater...
...letters a week, more than Clark Gable's or Shirley Temple's. In exhibitor polls of western stars he stands at the top. Autry's pay, $12,500 per picture, is not what it might be, but this is not his fault. He had to fight to get it raised from $5,000 per picture last year. Other companies would gladly pay him much more but Republic, which gave him his first chance and put him on the map, has him under unbreakable contract...
Told last week in Margaret Sanger's 504-page autobiography, that anecdote was symbolic of her singleminded, 23-year fight against police, courts, churchmen and ridicule to legalize birth control in the U. S. Most of the public highlights of her story-Congressional lobbying, duels with the Catholic Church, her sensational visit to Japan in 1922, a whirlwind missionary tour of India-are well known. But her beginnings-as the sixth of eleven children of a free-thinking tombstone carver in Corning, N. Y., as a nurse on Manhattan's lower East Side, and as a central member...
They see the fight between men and machines as the central drama of our time, but they think the solution lies in controlling machines, not hating them. The great industrial novel, they contend, will be written when men cease dreaming of such sentimentalities as a return to handicraft, a moratorium on inventions. Such a novel, they prophesy, will find its ideal subject in the automobile industry...