Word: combativeness
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...America's public service, I stand squarely behind the belief that a brilliant opportunity for service and achievement lies ahead for the trained college graduate of 1936 who accepts the interesting opportunities today afforded by the public service. Regardless of the protection of Civil Service or other efforts to combat spoils system practices, such young men are in demand not only in government, but also in public organizations (such as the growing number of associations of government officials and the like) and private industry. Indeed, the future might very well reveal to us that the two-sided experience...
...fire and his first impressions of European cannon when British battleships bombarded Kagoshima, where Togo served in one of the smoothbore, muzzle-loading batteries. Three years later he joined the Navy, fought all through Japan's civil war. "At 21 he was a naval veteran of more actual combat experience than many an officer acquires in a lifetime of service." Early marked as a sound fellow, Togo was one of twelve young officers sent to England to get his training straight from the lion's mouth. To his British instructors too he seemed sound. "He was not what...
Energetic Winthrop House Dance Committeemen organized a shovel brigade yesterday to combat the rising tide of water and slush and clear a parking space for the Friday evening dance...
...purpose of the publication is to present a realistic interpretation of rural problems in America and to combat the misinformation and biased propaganda concerning farm problems which is now being get before the farmers...
...this did not result from intrinsic weakness of the franc. It resulted from speculative at tacks, investment of capital abroad - as when our citizens seized upon the recent rise in Wall Street securities to invest - and hoarding. All these three forces we are in a strong position to combat...