Word: combativeness
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...farmer's son, instead, of leading books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced...
...desperate combat for the city of London the army of Wessex last week locked in a death grapple with the army of Mercia. Rain fell and fell until even Noah's contemporaries would have been convinced that there was going to be a flood. And finally after everyone had been soaked to the bone, the umpires decided that the sham battle had saved London for Mercia...
...this year for the first time, the duties of trainer for the football men. The only injuries of any consequence are a leg injury which will keep J. J. Maher '26 on the sidelines for three weeks, and a sprained ankle which will render Henry Chauncey '28, hors de combat for a like length of time at least...
...warnings that bands of desperate western criminals, foiled by vigilance committees at home, are now descending in hordes upon the East. Mr. Joyce declared that before the National Crime Commission could get under way it might be necessary to organize "well drilled, well armed corps of expert riflemen" to combat criminals on the scene of their operations. "Something must be done, and done quickly," said Mr. Joyce...
...longer were the courts of the West Side Club the scene of a populous and pretty carnival. Combat had narrowed, grown bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...