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Word: fighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowman and Dave Burt, the latter unbeaten in intercollegiate competition, will fight it out for the number one berth. Captain Alvah Sulloway, who captained the squash team this fall, and Hubert Hauck are much improved this year according to Cowles. Langdon Gilkey and Chester Legg will complete the team as rated for the Southern trip, with John Palfrey as substitute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAM PREPARES FOR WASHINGTON JAUNT | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

Stating that America under the New Deal is in grave danger of losing its liberal institutions, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. '08, in an address at the Union last night, urged the younger generation of today to fight for the preservation of the nation's democratic heritage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IS CITED BY ROOSEVELT | 3/22/1938 | See Source »

...more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow is to snip off all a captive's buttons, send him home holding up his pants. One strategist discovers that the way to fix that is to fight without clothes until a war chest of replacement buttons can be accumulated. The children discover what an angry futility war is. Director Daroy discovers the French way to end such a story: a chance remark about the weather turns an inter-village love feast into a neat and retroactive grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...resigned? It later appeared that the President spent most of the evening attempting to convince Dr. Schuschnigg that he ought to remain Chancellor-and, inferentially, fight. Possibly there are times when not to fight-especially when all concerned are of "German blood"-is the wise, courageous course. Certainly Kurt von Schuschnigg had personally nothing to gain by a submission to the Nazis. On the contrary, he could justly fear to be butchered as was Dollfuss, fight or no fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Austria Is Finished | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...heavy hitting Bob Gannett, the outfield will probably be composed of Dave Shean in left, the newcomer Soltz in right and Gannett in the center garden. To date Paul Doyle is leading the fight for the Varsity catching berth and has been connecting regularly at the plate. Not out of the running for the back stop post are Chief Boston, Ellie Bacon, and Bob Fulton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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