Word: combativeness
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Health. Thanks were conveyed to the Rockefeller Foundation for supplying funds for the establishment of an intelligence bureau at Singapore to combat epidemics in the Far East. The Council also approved the establishment of the bureau...
...General Roberto Bencivenga, clumped into the centre of the Chamber, followed by a good round hundred equally irate Deputies. A fist fight followed, in which the General was knocked out, and many black eyes, bloody noses and thick ears resulted. Next day the General challenged Deputy Giunta to mortal combat...
...theme of intense hate, would gain, we feel, from a simpler and more direct treatment. The effort to suggest the vortex of sensations in the hero's mind, sustained as this effort is from beginning to end, cannot help straining at points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake...
...actual combat, when outside factors were considered which did not have to do immediately with actual naval strength, it is hardly likely that the United States would compare with Japan on the water in a ratio of one to three, but there is not the slightest doubt that much of the good resulting from the Washington Conference, both to America from the letter, and to the other signatory powers from the spirit of the agreement, has been practically nullified...
...somewhat lenghy document, which however contained several suggestions applicable to the situation in colleges with regard to prohibition. In fact it developed early in the opening session that violation of the eighteenth amendment was to be the chief subject of the various delegates. Among the suggestions to combat drinking in colleges formally ratified by the conference were propositions to approach the alumni in an effort to curtail drinking at class reunions and football games; to line up the fraternities and other undergraduate organizations on the side of strict enforcement: and a recommendation that the efforts of local agents be made...