Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development that there have always been new fields ahead in which it might play the role, as Mr. Conant phrases it, of "innovator and pacemaker." But when the conditions have been such that they menaced Harvard's existence in any form, the College has not been too proud to fight...
Thus Mr. Conant's speech is in keeping with three hundred years of College history, and his reactions are such as one might expect from a Harvard president. The University, while prepared to fight every attempt of a bigoted few to muzzle the tradition of liberal instruction will cooperate as always with sincere government efforts to advance the cause of learning...
...thought is dominant-that is, to fight until we can fight no more...
...consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football with their adversaries between the lines have been replaced by trained troops eager to fight. Up to the breach Caudillo ("Chief") Franco rushed divisions of Italians that would have had more than enough to do on any one of Spain's four other fronts last week...
Hence there is a somewhat more workaday point of view throughout the book, and mixed in with the anecdotes, gobbets of such practical information as how to handle drunks, raucous, tearful or belligerent; comparative analyses of drunks, male and female; how to tell when a fight is brewing and how to stop it. Collectors of contemporary Americana should note that the book contains an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Largely made up of veiled, bitter aspersions on ladies who run salons and write memoirs, it is only too apparently another reply to Gertrude Stein's strictures on Hemingway...