Word: combativeness
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...squadron bar. Capt. Buckley, a member of the squadron, last year compiled its intimate family lies and friends. Lately he was persuaded to issue it to the public. It is detailed, vivid, gaily dressed with anecdote. Besides many a snapshot the book includes five etchings of planes in combat by another flyer of the group, Architect Lansing C. (''Denny") Hoklen...
...regrettable that press reports of scientific interest in the sleeping sickness epidemic in St. Louis should have produced a psychological effect equivalent to panic through the country. Schools, especially, in this area, have that to combat...
...coming to the city, she replied: "To improve my mind." Meanwhile. Mrs. Smith of Oregon or New Mexico or Virginia, reads of all these famous people from New York, the Federal agencies, Rochester, Minn., etc., etc., and it seems to her like the gathering of shock troops to combat, as it were, the Black Death in the annas...
...members gasped at what they took to be the Department of Justice's full-fledged plan to combat crime. From the floor rose angry cries: ''Answer him! Unconstitutional! States' rights! Answer...
...doctors, one of whom was Blake Wilbur, testified that the wounds on her head might have resulted from a blow against the bathtub rim and faucets. Since the evidence against Lamson was purely circumstantial this point loomed important as the basis for "reasonable doubt." Desperately the prosecution sought to combat it. It called Dr. Arthur William Meyer, head of the Stanford anatomy department, who testified that Mrs. Lamson's scalp indicated that she had been seized and yanked forward. Pathologist Proescher claimed he had conducted a personal experiment to disprove the accident theory. He had undressed, got into...