Word: combativeness
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...existed at Cambridge-so that we may have the pleasure of witnessing it on the occasion of its recurrence? Can you also tell us when Mr. Paul Melon took up residence in Emmanuel College? You see, we wish to make use of the good offices of TIME to combat prevailing opinions on these matters. Until reading your good magazine, we had never heard of a "regatta" at either Oxford or Cambridge and the general view held was that Mr. Paul Melon was at Clare College. Do come to our aid in clearing up these vulgar sins respectively of omission...
...seat to which Governor Fisher had appointed him after the Vare rejection. Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor, crusading Dry, ran as a rural independent against Mr. Brown for the gubernatorial nomination. The Mellon faction in Pittsburgh supported Messrs. Brown and Grundy. An informal Pinchot-Grundy alliance existed to combat the Vare ticket...
...harm man. Legend locates him in India, China, Florida, Africa, Canada, Germany, The Bronx. He was usually supposed to have the body of a horse (sometimes an ass, a goat) with a sharp horn (from a few inches to seven feet long) protruding from his forehead. In combat he could destroy a lion. He refused to allow man to capture him alive. His horn, said the alchemists, would act as an antidote for'poison, would cure convulsions, the holy disease (epilepsy...
...Passed a bill creating a National Employment Service. Already passed by the Senate to combat joblessness are bills to create a stabilization board on public works and to compile employment statistics...
...year the disease will be prevalent, the following year rare. In one pair of years in Manhattan the ratio was 20:1. Last year was the low point of the curve; this year is a measles year. Manhattan's public health officials are getting into action, preparing to combat the malady...