Word: combativeness
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...inaccessible, rich, and self supporting. Moreover, despite the passionate pacificism of many of its citizens who realize the butchering possibilities of another war, America calmly pursues an intensive program of military training, and will now build each year five cruisers of the type most effective for modern naval combat, to prepare herself for war with England or Japan. These factors being taken into consideration, a suggestion from the United States that war be stopped merely by the assumption of moral responsibility was not the thing to make foreign politicians chortle with delight. And when one realizes that unless the Constitution...
...Appointee McNeill is virtually unknown; but Britons are content that he should represent the Crown because of his long and faithful service to the Government of India. From 1888 to 1912 he held various posts in the administration of Bombay, later being charged with educative work to combat the plague throughout India. His brother, Irish Free State Minister of Education John McNeill, reputedly secured his appointment, four years ago, as first High Commissioner of the Irish Free State at London...
What is predicted to be an evenly matched game will be started this afternoon at 2 o'clock when the Harvard and Dartmouth soccer teams, clash on Soldiers Field in the annual game preceding the Harvard-Dartmouth football combat...
...felt himself-at last-unable to combat intelligent-argument with loud and blatant phrases. They all lay down sooner or later...
...sole boast to uniqueness that this combat might have had is in the characters of the principals. One was touted--to the death--as a student prince; the other made an odd comeback to popularity by emphasizing those qualities which once made him an unpopular champion--brute force and a marvelous thickness of skin as regards what the public had to say concerning him. The gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst...