Word: combativeness
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...Discrimination in occupational advertisements is sharpest against Jewish salesmen, white-collar workers, women stenographers. To combat it, many Jewish girls have taken to wearing crosses "as a protective charm...
...Largest of living invertebrates are the giant squids. In the early 19th Century a sea captain brought on board his ship fragments of such a giant which showed it to have been 50 ft. long, not including the ten arms. Scars of combat with giant squids have been found on the hides of whales. Largest of known insects, extinct for 170,000,000 years, had a wingspread of 2 ft. 6 in. Largest of known arthropods was Pterygotus, 9 ft. long, which faintly resembled a lobster and roamed on the Silurian sea bottoms of 350,000,000 years...
Feeling ran high in the Eliot-Dunster game, and hard, base running almost resulted in several players being put hors de combat. In the absence of ace pitcher Madey, Joe Stern was called on for mound duty for the Elephant, while the Funsters used Roger Kinnincutt. Red Lee of Eliot led the Hitters with two doubles. The Funsters had the bases full and only one out with the score tied in the last of the seventh, but snappy Eliot fielding forced the game...
Transforming Soldiers Field into a bull-fighting area early yesterday, an American Ferdinand the Bull wandered onto the Freshman football field and there engaged in a losing combat with two matadors from the Boston police department...
...question of racism, abhorrent to the international and supranational views of Catholicism, has lately been much on the Pope's mind. There are rumors that he will soon issue an encyclical denouncing racism as a heresy; that a Catholic organization will be launched to combat anti-Semitism throughout the world. The extent to which racism is an issue between the Church and Italy became evident in a sermon preached last fortnight by Italy's famed "Fascist" Cardinal, Archbishop Alfred Ildephonso Schuster of Milan. A lean, ascetic Benedictine, Cardinal Schuster has been spoken of as Mussolini's candidate...