Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictators' will-to-war. It tended to absolve Franklin Roosevelt from previous charges of "war-mongering." Whether or not his invitation was accepted-and his ten-year clause made acceptance look impossible-it kept open the way to some other outcome of Europe's deadlock than a fight to the death...
...Appalled by the thought of having to fight, a schoolboy in Los Angeles and a World War cavalry veteran in Waterbury, Conn., committed suicide...
Bill Mogk has the first base job, and Walt Scholl and George Polzer are working together at second and short. Bud Finneran and Chuck Bowen are still waging a keen fight for the hot corner post, and the Ithacans have capable reserves for the other infield positions...
...fact, Harvard officials have never in the past evinced any active desire to fight or mitigate the vice which exists in the Square. Their attitude has rather been curiously apathetic, a halting disapproval which has never been vigorous enough to drive them to organized warfare. This apathy has naturally enervated any other groups with vested interests in the problem. Just how the administrative officers have been able to lull themselves into such a pleasant slumber is an interesting question...
...General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among U. S. political reformers, won the Democratic nomination for Governor after an eight-day fight; at the State House in Frankfort eight months later he was shot...