Word: combativeness
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...Bolivian army still wears the old colorful uniform of the Prussian army. General Hanskundt in 1911 reformed the Bolivian army. Today our Junkers flyers are instructors of the Bolivians. Junkers airplanes are flying over primeval forests and are a most effective instrument of combat due to a lack of roads. German business men and technicians are as welcome in Bolivia as German teachers. The German school founded in La Paz in 1924, now numbers 300 students. Just because Germans had such an active part in the growth of Bolivia we may wish Bolivia a speedy peaceful consolidation of her boundaries...
...Lawrason Riggs, smart Catholic chaplain of New Haven, Conn.** The name of the organization is in loving memory of George Calvert, founder of Maryland Free State. Better than any other Catholic organization it has reached non-Catholics. But its GOOD AMERICANISM advertisement was criticized for using bad taste to combat bad taste...
...hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent memory, there is a possibility that the fifty few thousand who attend the game will be composed of those who actually are interested in the jarring combat of two powerful elevens, and not in the incidental festivities. The lust for sensation has temporarily been sated...
...North Carolina football team has not visited the Stadium to engage a Harvard eleven in combat since 1916. In that year a Tarheel aggregation, coached by two Harvard graduates under the famous Haughton system, was turned back by a 21 to 0 count...
...clinked merrily into the coffers, rarely receiving the close attentions of other than minor attaches, until public sentiment has at last placed the receipt of money as well as its expenditure in the realm of the executive. No longer will the eye of leadership unswervingly be fixed upon the combat-it must often revert to the ammunition...