Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton undergraduates yesterday endorsed in a campus poll the statement that "I will fight if the United States is invaded by a foreign power," it was learned early this morning from the Associated Press...
...said that they would fight in no war that the government might declare. The Princeton poll was sponsored by the Brown Daily Herald which plans to combine the results of similar polls in 753 other colleges and universities in the country...
...Some commentators thought what Hitler meant by this was that unless her colonies are returned Germany will fight...
Japan's War Minister General Gen Sugiyama told a committee of the Tokyo Diet fortnight ago that even the versatile Japanese could not fight 450,000,000 Chinese and play games simultaneously; that if the "China incident" continues, it might be best to cancel the 1940 Olympics. Next day the Japanese Olympic organizing committee, pooh-poohing opposition as coming "from a small and not very strong group of extreme Nationalists or Fascists," announced a 5,000,000-yen ($1,450,000) budget for a Tokyo Olympic village. On his way to Cairo, Egypt, where the International Olympic Committee...
Airily written, amusingly scored, sprinkled with reliable supporting players, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife has more deftness than heft, loses speed in the late rounds. Best fun: Actress Colbert warding off ardent Actor Cooper's advances with a scallion breath, announcing: "I'll fight you with every vegetable at my disposal...