Word: combativeness
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...remaining maids have to divide among themselves the work of the victims, as well as to undergraduate displeasure at the dismissal itself. The maids have to care for about forty-five rooms, on a salary of about eight dollars a week under the present arrangement. The students, to combat the decision, have been gathering in fraternities and dormitories to frame petitions, while it is understood that a protest will appear in the next issue of the Harkness Hoot...
...Daisy Jost's throat & nose. Declared Dr. Rosenow: "This is the first time that tests in cases of sneezing have been conducted in this world, to my knowledge. We are hoping that we will find a streptococcus that causes sneezing, so that a serum may be devised to combat it." The infected rabbits sneezed, indicating that a germ made Daisy Jost sneeze. Dr. Rosenow's men decided that the germ was the same one responsible for sleeping sickness. Before they could attempt to make a serum, Daisy got well spontaneously...
...biennially by abolishing four normal schools, Tennessee Polytechnic Institute and the University of Tennessee Junior College of Agriculture. ¶ Professors and other officials at the University of Kentucky have not drawn more than half-pay for months. ¶ In Pittsburgh public men and civic organizations mobilized to combat a proposal to make the school board elective instead of, as at present, appointive. ¶ A nation-wide survey of school finance under the auspices of the U. S. Office of Education last week found that 9,500,000 children in the nation are deprived of proper education...
...collection of aerial warfare photographs exhibited the past three years by a Mrs. Gladys Cockburn-Lange, reputedly the remarried widow of a British Royal Flying Corps officer shot down in France. The pictures, some 60 in all, are amazing views of British and German planes in close combat. A few show such spectacular views as two planes colliding in midair; a German pilot falling from his flaming plane; most extraordinary of all, a British plane losing its wings as its pilot looped in exuberance over a victory...
...shutter was said to be operated by the first pull of the gun trigger. In normal combat practice a pilot would fire a burst from his gun to make sure it was in working order long before approaching as close to an enemy plane as the pictures indicated...