Word: combativeness
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...game is much cleaner than it used to be. There were fewer officials and fewer rules concerning roughness. Coaches were forced to teach their players 'dirty football' so that they would know how to combat it when an opponent resorted to slugging and kicking. It was a case of self-protection, and, if you failed to protect yourself, you would be incapacitated in a surprisingly short time. I had my nose broken in the first game of every season, and it wasn't because of an accident either. I played half one season with three broken ribs and finished...
...Army weekend, a small group, which represents a bare majority of the Liberal Club, has arranged a monster program, intended to combat war. To start the proceedings, it has decided to hold a mass-meeting on Boston Common this Saturday morning, for the discussion of the path to peace; at the meeting, "The Horror of It," a collection of choice photos of corpses and the like, will be sold. This gathering, it is said will be an intercollegiate affair; at least, some Wellesley students are expected to attend. Afterwards, if the plan goes through, there will be another meeting...
...always illustrations of the same theme: the sportsman caught in an unsportingly tight place and, with various versions of the Hemingway stiff upper lip, taking it like a sportsman. The motto on his title-page states his creed more explicitly than before: "Unlike all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory; nor, if he win far enough, shall there be any reward within himself...
...strapping angler and huntsman who looks like a country squire, seldom wears clerical garb. In a church noted for its urbanity and jocularity he has been called "Gadfly Cummins" and his journal the "Chronic Hell." Dr. Cummins detests Anglo-Catholicism, helped found the Protestant Episcopal Church League to combat it. When his name was suggested as suffragan to New York's high-church Bishop Manning, Dr. Cummins announced he would be "errand boy" to no bishop (TIME, May 19, 1930). "Gadfly" Cummins has long sought to introduce "referendum and recall" in the Episcopal Church, currently aiming his proposal against...
...signed with broad and highbrowed Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil what they called "ten treaties." First was a pact of utmost significance, binding Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Paraguay last week to 1) renounce aggressive war, 2) refuse to recognize territorial acquisitions made by conquest and 3) combat outside intervention in settling South American disputes. Up to the day of signing it was not known how many states would sign with Argentina and Brazil. Paraguay's signature was taken to mean that she wants to stop fighting her everlasting war with Bolivia over the Gran Chaco (TIME...