Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caution was indeed the mainspring of wisdom last week for Great Britain, the Prime Minister added with further candor that so far as he could see the people of Italy and the people of Germany are now just about the only ones in Europe who do have stomach to fight. "I feel convinced," added Mr. Baldwin, "that in many countries, including our own and France, there is such loathing of war . . . that I sometimes wonder if they would march [i.e., fight] on any other occasion than if they believed their own frontiers were in danger. I do not know...
...with President Manuel Quezon, Roy Howard again produced a front-page sensation by asserting that the Islands wanted, not full independence, but permanent commonwealth status. Three months later the snappy little publisher was inside the Kremlin, drawing from steely Dictator Joseph Stalin the hypothetical circumstances under which Russia would fight Japan...
Last week when whooping cough was at its seasonal peak, Johns Hopkins University Medical School investigators let it be known that the late Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's only son-in-law had chosen the fight against that disease as his own first public philanthropy...
...successful season for a new promoting organization, 20th Century Sporting Club Inc., run by Tex Rickard's onetime right-hand man, Mike Jacobs, in opposition to Madison Square Garden Corp. which Rickard founded. It caused twelve deaths from excitement. Adolf Hitler congratulated the winner. What made the fight remarkable, however, was none of these facts. It was remarkable because in it Schmeling demolished not merely a capable & well-trained opponent but the hardiest of all those resilient myths which flourish so prodigiously on the sports pages of U. S. newspapers, the myth that Joe Louis was unbeatable...
...hope that doing so would prove a profitable venture, 20th Century Sporting Club dug up Schmeling who, since losing the title to Jack Sharkey and being thrashed by a second-rater named Steve Hamas, had stayed in Germany, making tentative gestures toward a comeback. What sort of chance fight experts and their audience thought Schmeling had was last week shown by the odds, 10-to-1, and by the comments of famed prizefight reporters. Samples...