Word: combativeness
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...Angeles Junior College [TIME, May 31], you must have been impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape to further reduce their "biting power," and also instructed...
...world, one flesh and one devil which we must combat or flee. Today there are many--many at least in appearances; one devil at the bottom of them all, perhaps, if your theology inclines you so to state the case of man's ever-recurring ills. Each worlds has its own formulas, its own incantations, its own tests of conformity, its own methods of excommunication. In some lands the more independent spirits are physically coerced if the social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing...
...combat the forces of conformity one can rely only on oneself. To escape the claims of the outer world one must first have come to terms with the problems of his own inner life. The courage and fortitude necessary to maintain even a slight degree of independence are not to be found in the hearts of those of little faith. To your own satisfaction you must have answered that most devastating of human questions,--why? "And be not conformed to this world" says the text, but why? St. Paul's answer is given by the remainder of the verse...
Three weeks ago M-Day's three wings concentrated in California. There, divided into two warlike combat groups, it played a new kind of war game. Day & night it attacked and defended an imaginary Los Angeles that had been drawn to scale on the desert sands of Muroc Dry Salt Lake (TIME, May 24). Last week when the battle of Los Angeles ended, M-Day's commander, Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, sat down with his staff to write a confidential report to the War Department of the conclusions his new game had produced. But before...
...Birmingham, Ala. Sheriff Fred H. McDuff received a court warrant from nearby Cullman County calling for the arrest of one John D. Chambliss, who "gave a challenge in words and in person to fight in combat a duel with John Stevens and Erwin Stevens and to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol.'' Swearer of the warrant was Farmer Erwin Stevens...