Word: combativeness
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...that you should introduce such child's play in your last remarks; and, above all, that you had to bring in that much-strained joke about giving the name of "H. E. L. L." (Harvard Emasculated Language League) to a society which might be formed to combat the bad language of today. If you have no helpful suggestions to make about this work in Verona (and most obviously you have not), you will do best to "let well enough alone...
Yale will be called upon to combat a forward pass attack said to be equal to that developed by any eleven in years. In addition to the aerial plays, the Iowa team possesses in Captain Gordon Locke a line plunger who should worry the Yale defence...
...gates of our own cities, is deplorable. The world has reached a stage where all sections are coming into close contact. In such a situation a policy of disinterested aloofness can lead only to disaster. Here and there, it is true, a few individual efforts are being made to combat this smugness in the American mind. The latest example is a new magazine, "Foreign Affairs", under the editorship of Professor Archibald Carey Coolidge of the University. Included in the list of contributors are President Eliot, Andre Tardieu, and Elihu Root...
...even to the layman. Crime and its methods have advanced as rapidly as the rest of civilization. The old-time "jimmy" and the nitroglycerine "soup" are now aided by elaborately planned, wireless-informed rings operating with the most modern tools and making a getaway in high-powered cars. To combat this the old-fashioned equipment and ponderous methods of the police departments are hopelessly inadequate...
When interviewed for the CRIMSON yesterday, Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, who recently returned from Russia, where he has been engaged in relief work, gave a brief outline of the famine conditions there and the means that are being taken to combat them...