Word: skirmisher
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...several years there has been a tense attitude of waiting along the public utility front. Stirrings in Congress and many a local skirmish have hinted that a decisive battle would some day be fought between Private Enterprise and Public Regulation. Last week in the Midwest the sharpest utility conflict of years was in full swing, one with giants as principals...
Augustus joined the cavalry, was badly wounded in his first skirmish, fell in love with his hospital nurse and married her. Polycarp Vaiden and A. Gray Lacefield came through the war unhurt. But before they got home again the Yankees had been there and had not left much to come back to. When the reconstructed Negroes got uppity Miltiades organized and headed the local Ku Klux Klan. Then Polycarp was shot from ambush. Marcia had little excuse left for not marrying A. Gray, but at the last minute was won by Jerry Catlin, a Southerner who had fought...
...Hoover to the United States Senate, where it will surely receive before long the most active discussion, readers can judge for themselves the realism of the undergraduates' battle. The war of arguments at Jordan Hall next Wednesday night, March 4, will be at least in the nature of a skirmish preceding the final engagement in the halls of the Capitol, and to some extent foreshadowing the major lines of the conflict...
With the first University hockey game scheduled for tomorrow night, Coach Stubbs yesterday announced the lineup which would start off the skirmish with the Engineers at 8.15 o'clock in the Boston Garden...
...State of Rio Grande do Norte rebellious Deputy Pereira had a rival last week. Impressed with the comparative success of Rebel Pereira, a Col. Joaquim Saldanha declared an insurrection against the government of Rio Grande do Norte, led out a force of 300 men to battle. In his first skirmish he defeated a body of Rio Grande do Norte state police, killed their commander, Capt Tavares...