Word: combativeness
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...truth is then apparent. No man holds better reasons in his mind for becoming president of Harvard University than does Summerfield Baldwin--but are those the reasons which can satisfy Harvard? All flippancy aside, and one can best combat the flippancy of a burst of bromides such as these excerpts from the sensational meanderings of a mind with a grudge against the History Department with words of a kindred lack of seriousness, the Presidency of Harvard University is a position based on positive values. The list of Menchenisms of Mr. Baldwin are negative values. Those who could be content with...
Courageous, chivalrous, when he ran for the first of his three Congressional terms seven years ago he talked from a wheel chair, said of his opponent: "No knightlier spirit than Edgar Watkins ever went to worthy combat or shivered lance at Camelot or Stirling." Himself lost in Camelot's misty lore, Knight Upshaw may often think in terms of questing a Holy Grail...
...would, however, require a very powerful organization to combat the almost universal desire of European musicians to come to America...
...preponderant ascendancy in Mexico during the more than quarter-century-long presidencies of Porfirio Diaz (1877-80, 1884-1911), largely, it is touted, through the good offices of his two pro-Catholic wives, the second, luscious, youthful, blooming. Since then the governments of Mexico have been too unstable to combat the Vatican seriously, until the rise-of President Calles, backed by a resolute, anti-Catholic agrarian-laborite support of Communistic ilk. For the present the Vicar of Christ has contented himself with ordering prayers throughout Catholic Christendom for the supremacy of the Church. His Holiness knows that, though he will...
...death. To Dzerzhinsky-in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow-belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry. Working in sympathy with Trotzsky-also "a practical man"-he has striven literally day and night to combat the visionary, theoretical Marxism which is the chief curse of the Soviets...