Word: combativeness
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...Besides the early feeding of water and solid food by mouth, it is also extremely helpful to supply some adjuvant which will furnish bulk, retard bacterial growth and thus help to combat intestinal stasis. This purpose is best served by mineral oil in agar, with or without the addition of phenolphthalein...
...field of combat yesterday afternoon, the warring forces of the CRIMSON and Lampoon baseball stars buried their hatchets long enough to challenge Coach Samborski's nine. The latter, however, loath to risk their high-ranking status, rejected the challenge on the grounds that their multiuniformed antagonists were not fit opposition...
...flop at the first signs of fire, try to scratch up a few handfuls of earth to hide behind, stare at each other to see who will have nerve enough to follow the commander forward, stumble to their feet, start to run and, the lust and excitement of combat suddenly on them, break into that wild monotone which, in civil life, is heard only in the frenzy of a prison riot...
Ewing, whose cancer research at Memorial Hospital has done most to combat this disease in the U. S., has repeatedly asked for a $10,000,000 cancer research institution in Manhattan. With such an institution and five similar ones in five other major cities, he claims that oncologists can eventually conquer cancer which, by killing one person in every thousand each year, ranks second as a cause of death in the U. S.&* The present old cancer hospital takes care of 325 patients a day, has some 11,000 active cases of cancer on its outpatient rolls. The new hospital...
Frankly it looks as if many months would be required to combat the forces behind the bill. These forces are numerous, powerful and utterly unscrupulous. First comes Representative Dorgan, father of many eye-catching, hollow and communist-baiting bits of worthless legislation. Mr. Dorgan's forte lies in bills to purify the theatre (especially Shakespeare), keep our American youth unsullied from the myriad wiles and snares of Moscow, and prevent the Red universities of Massachusetts from completely seducing the young...