Word: combativeness
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...lure some $1,300,000,000 in currency out of mattresses, old teapots, chimney corners and safety deposit boxes was Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. For a fortnight Col. Knox had been busily creating what he named the Citizens' Reconstruction Organization to combat hoarding. Chairmen were appointed in all twelve Federal Reserve Bank districts. Each State and city was organized for a great educational drive commencing this week...
Owing to the cancellation of the match, with M.I.T. which was stated for the early part of this week, the Dartmouth combat will be the first intercollegiate test this season for the University fencers. Although the exact calibre of the New Hampshire team is unknown, it is anticipated that if will offer strong opposition...
Although present day civilization is too eager in its cannonization of the pronouncements of specialists there is much of good in the contemporary tendency to examine all things with intensity. The medical profession furnishes many recognized examples of progress in the combat against disease, as in the case of tuberculosis. Whatever success has been attained has resulted from highly specialized study. The present day standards of living, too, are memorials of long studies which began much in the same way as Boston University has chosen to inaugurate a systematic and scholarly construction of defenses against depression...
...Ingalls was indeed an ace. He left college, aged 18, to be trained in naval aviation, flew in combat from March October, 1918, emerged aged 19 with me than five enemy airships to his crew (only U. S. Navy ace) to take his degree after being decorated by England with the D. F. C., by the U. S. with...
When buck deer fight to the often as not it is starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side...