Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people write the CRIMSON at this time of year, I wanted to show you the type of letter that I think would liven up our column. If this letter had not been written us, modesty would have restrained me from pointing out the fact that in the first Harlow skirmish the score is: CRIMSON 5, Harlow...
...Macy's, Gimbel's and Bloomingdale's, the three big Manhattan department stores whose legendary price vendettas are a merchandising tradition, were at it again as soon as their doors opened the morning after the Supreme Court's decision. In one day's skirmish cigarets at Macy's dropped from $1.14 per carton to 64? - of which 60? represented the Federal tax. Edna Ferber's Come and Get It sank from $2.50 per copy to $2.04. Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a $3 volume, opened...
...compared the position of this country to that of an innocent bystander who has been injured in a fight he did not start. Such self-righteousness hardly condones the failure to stop the injury from becoming a permanent paralysis. How much the United States was bruised in the economic skirmish, even Mr. Morgenthau does not venture to say, but since President Roosevelt's refusal to cooperate wrecked the World Monetary and Economic Conference at London in 1933, it is incumbent upon the same man to take the initiative for a new and more satisfactory settlement of the world's problems...
With rare exceptions all the current red scares in the universities, which have been getting much undeserved publicity on the front pages of the country, have as much fact behind them as the present comic-opera skirmish at Williamstown. Rebuffed by a deplorable lack of hospitality on the part of the Williams student body, the embassy of good will from Boston's over-lighted watch-towers will make a hasty return to the genial city where its efforts to save America from looming chaos receive the appreciation they deserve...
...Tearing through the streets in motor cars, they rushed to the Salamis naval arsenal. A high ranking officer shot the sentry dead. Five warships including the two finest in the Greek Navy, the armored cruiser Averoff and the cruiser-minelayer Helle, were tied up at the arsenal. A brisk skirmish took place with the loyal garrison, but the ships were finally able to load shells...