Word: combativeness
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...Admiral Billard, in 1790. Its purpose is to protect the customs laws of the United States. In these days, around the end of the eighteenth century, smugglers were very active in running contraband into secluded bays and inlets along the Atlantic seaboard. The original Coast Guard cutters had to combat this activity, which they succeeded in stamping out, and smuggling of that character practically disappeared...
...Margot Asquith: "A vast dummy gun is on the fine site opposite the hospital, which would have been glad to receive half the money spent on it and other horrors that we could all numerate to perpetuate the spirit which it should be the privilege of the Church to combat...
...most interesting experience," he said, "was a visit to France during the War. In 1918, at the request of the authorities, I went abroad to see what could be done to assist morale and combat homesickness, a very prevalent and really serious malady, in our camps overseas, by sending to our soldiers the atrical entertainment from home. In company with Mr. E. B. Sothern, the Shakesperean actor, I spent three months surveying the varied conditions. We visited at least 50 of The American encampments, and spent one night under artillery fire at Toul, which was then our front...
...shifts in the cheer-leading squad will make it possible for the candidates remaining in the competition to lead the cheering in both University and Freshman games today. One shift will cover the first and fourth quarters of the Holy Cross game, and will officiate at the 1929-Exeter combat during the two middle periods, while they are replaced at the University stands by the other ball of the squad...
Spoke up: "Let's combat December...