Word: combativeness
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...well what you do." This, I realize, is a heresy among Harvard men; and yet it has a certain truth in it. If we are going to play football, and if we are going to charge large prices for the privilege of watching it, and if we intend to combat teams of superior calibre, we must do it well. Speaking from personal experience, I never objected to rigorous training rules, long practices, early returns in the fall, and superior coaching. At least I felt that I could be proud to play on the team. And, strangest of all, I never...
Robert Scott was a hard man, hard-bitten and harddriving. He trained himself to endure hardships. The implacable oppositions of Nature roused in him cold furies of combat. Educated at Stubbington House School, he got into the Navy, quickly made his abilities apparent, was rapidly promoted. At the turn of the Century he was named commander of the National Antarctic Expedition, set out in the Discovery with Shackleton among his men. They discovered King Edward VII Land, were frozen in for nearly two years off Ross Island, learned what scurvy meant. In the following years Captain Scott commanded three...
Such disturbances were commonly accepted as harbingers of winter. In both cases radical leaders were quick to capitalize on hunger and cold. Yet the Administration in Washington refused to be hustled into any determination of its relief plans to combat this form of discontent. Administrator Hopkins went out of his way to poke fun at Republican Ogden Mills who had declared in a campaign speech that there would be 20,000,000 people on relief by January...
...necessary to convince people of the imminence of a second world war. The danger is rather that we have become so used to the idea as to be callous to it. The purpose of actions such as the Armistice Day Weekend actions planned by the students' committee is to combat this callousness, and to organize into an effective force the antiwar sentiment of the great majority of the student body. The actions are taken during Armistice Day Weekend because we are convinced that action to prevent future wars is the most effective tribute to those who have died...
...week, with much less hesitancy, the A. M. A. reaffirmed its approval, advising in a three-column report and a two-column editorial in its Journal that Coley's Fluid be used as a prophylactic in conjunction with surgery and in inoperable cancers "as a desperate attempt to combat the inevitable." Dr. Coley is 72, and still in active practice. For 41 years he was attending surgeon in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. He has written extensively on cancer. He still believes that an invisible germ prepares the way for cancers of the bone. But he does not know...