Word: combativeness
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Incidents such as that at New Haven are serious, and the tendency revealed is one to be combatted: but unnecessary publicity often does more to encourage than to combat. The policy of the Yale University authorities in threatening to cancel the Freshman crew race was neither well calculated to inculate respect for the sacredness of law and order, not to give a proper impression to the outside world. Athletic eligibility has little to do with a general riot, and threats are usually a sign of weakness. In order to "see ourselves as others see us" we have to look through...
...paralysis of the insane, is a hitherto incurable brain disease caused by the penetration of Spirochaeta pallida, the germ of syphilis, to the higher nerve centers, and has been the object of attack by many neurologists without marked success (TIME, April 28). Malaria germs have recently been used to combat it. Since 1919, 42 advanced cases were treated with tryparsamide, 21 of which are now discharged and restored to useful work, and four more have shown great improvement. Whether the cures are permanent remains to be seen...
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina have adopted similar policies to combat the migration of their...
Bristling defenders of Americanism at Columbia have chosen rotten eggs, and masked man-handling to combat radicalism. They replied to the "insulting" doctrines of William Z. Foster by showering him and his audience with eggs; they answered jeers at the R. O. T. C. on parade by properly subduing with barrel-staves the student who pleaded guilty...
...afternoon in Watertown by the score of seven matches to one. Oakley scored on point when Chase defeated Dixon 6-4, 4-6, 10-8; otherwise the University players had things much their own way, winning their seven matches in straight sets. Kent and Oakley gave Briggs a stiff combat, losing only after two hard-fought sets, 10-8, 6-4. The third doubles match was not finished...