Word: combativeness
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...other lions & tigers had not mixed in with Sammy and Bessie. Fights have cost him 16 tigers, two lions. Lions usually gang up on a tiger, which always fights alone. Animal men like to speculate on how an evenly-matched lion and tiger would make out in single combat. Trainer Beatty would bet on the lion...
...civic Washington's greatest problems is starlings, small insectivorous birds first brought to the U. S. in 1890 from England to combat sparrows. One Civil Works relief project during the past two months was to oust great crowds of starlings from downtown Washington. At night CWA men climbed trees, scaled roofs, went after the birds. Result was that the starlings fled for sanctuary to the Capitol. Flocks of them darkened the dome, settled on window ledges, twittered, committed nuisances until Congressmen could no longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged...
...American Agriculturist, founded in 1842, was run from 1853 to 1883 by Orange Judd, a crony of Horace Greeley, who after the Civil War used it to combat his friend's opinions on reconstruction problems as well as to advise farmers what to feed their pigs. From 1883, when Long Island real estate speculations forced Orange Judd to sell his interest, until 1922, when Henry Morgenthau Jr. bought it, the Agriculturist went slowly to seed. Owner Morgenthau's Editor Edward Roe Eastman doubled its circulation, now 161,145. Last May the Agriculturist, beneath its masthead of cows...
...Napoleon Pelletier of Queens Village have been married 50 years. Mr. & Mrs. John Staudt Jr. have been married seven months. They and 498 other couples renewed their marriage vows at the behest of their pastor, Rev. Bernard J. Reilly. He thought up the idea a year ago to combat unrest and separation, believes it unique...
...only one half an inch thick and the mortar has dried and fallen from its position, leaving the concrete beneath to the exposure of the weather which has already started to rot the inner section of the pillars. Expensive major repairs have been found necessary in order to combat the decay which has set in on these comparatively new structures. As has been the case with the majority of the repairs of a similar nature which have been found in University buildings, the work has been undertaken by the Maintenance Department at the cost of the University...