Word: combativeness
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Simultaneous announcement of a one-year extension of the present temporary plan for student employment and of a further reduction in the cost of board is most pleasing to those who have labored so long to combat the current belief that Harvard is a rich man's college...
...disregard all principles of peace and make war in Manchuria, then China will fight back. She will fight and defend herself. We do not yet know her objective except that it is to drive Japan from Manchuria, but the Chinese armies are now in a far better position to combat the Japanese armies than...
...Cazeaux a camera that resembled, in outward appearance, a Lewis machine gun. This "camera gun" was mounted parallel to axis of the airplane and was charged with a small film roll-like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane. These pictures were developed and graded like examination papers at school-for correctness of lead...
...enemy" fleet trying to pierce the Scouting Force's defense of the same shoreline. This year he got the General Board's permission to reverse the problem, put the heavier fleet next to the land. As umpire aboard his flagship Pennsylvania he will follow the make-believe combat by radio, deciding which ship sinks which. When the engagement is broken off, he will summon all staff officers and ship commanders aboard the Pennsylvania for a critical discussion of Problem No. 14. He will announce no winner, no loser...
...Freedom." Often, on their own lands, they go about naked even in midwinter, although this is less popular with the younger generation than with strapping Doukhobor matrons and bearded elders. Nakedness is also a convenient form of protest against the Government, a protest which the Northwest Mounted Police combat with whips, tear-bombs, itch-powder (TIME, Sept...