Word: skirmish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experts and flanked by 100 newsgatherers, the 14 Council members sat about the Council table (brought especially from Geneva) for four days. From the galleries half the grandees of Spain and members of the Diplomatic Corps, watched the proceedings. Only once were they treated to a sharp word skirmish...
...clock this afternoon the Harvard lacrosse team encounters the Springfield stickmen on the Business School Field. A comparison of the records of the two teams makes Harvard a decided favorite in the skirmish...
...General Hertzog's bill while General Smuts watched, tense and grim. The official tally gave the measure a majority of five votes -but a two-thirds majority was required to make it law. A mirthless, triumphant smile twisted the lips of General Smuts. He had won this preliminary skirmish, but the real dogfight will be the General Election, now scheduled for next June...
...first skirmish . . . the battle will go on," explained Dr. F. Scott McBride, the League's arch-lobbyist...
...fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy germs in which the chances of medical victory are enormously enhanced. The old-fashioned CRISIS was the climax of a short, decisive skirmish between the infective germs and whatever white germ-eating corpuscles the patient was lucky enough to possess...