Word: antagonist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pausing an instant to collect his energies, Billy Patterson dashed at the head of the column. . . . Patterson had utterly routed the front, when 'Spicer' who was bringing up the rear . . . prepared to meet the burly antagonist...
...match yesterday afternoon, Kim Canavarro and Frank Appleton disposed of their opponents in four sets, while it took Danny Ladd five to dispose of powers of the Racquots Club for the third Harvard win. Jim Rousmaniore could not get a set off his antagonist, and Warren Williams succeeded in winning only one to account for the two losses...
...without the slightest trace of malice or partisanship, Lewis Mumford has displayed a unique capacity for sensing and understanding the advanced thought, the advanced craftsmanship of his time, reconciling its contradictions in a persuasive synthesis. Shrewd observers ticket Mumford as the type of the New Liberal, find his typical antagonist in Old Liberal Walter Lippmann, who last autumn offered his version of The Good Society (TIME, Sept. 27). Old liberals and new liberals will differ as to which is the greater realist...
...first work of fiction to tempt comparison with Middletown in Transition. On the surface Author White's Main Street still looks much as it did in Main Street and Babbitt. Like Sinclair Lewis. Author White gives no solution for Main Street's inhibiting culture, offers no antagonist capable of creating a better one. But Author White's novel carries an undercurrent, nowhere found in Lewis' books, of those acute undersurface tensions detected by the Lynds...
...youngest of the Biddle brothers, Sydney, a Philadelphia psychiatrist. Absent is the eldest brother, Moncure ("Monk") Biddle. An investment broker, he alone of the four upholds the tradition of their ancestor, Nicholas Biddle, who was president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson's great antagonist (and incidentally the first benefactor of the Pennsylvania Academy). Commissioned by Brother Francis, the painting was done during the hottest part of last July, which is why "they all look sort of droopy," as Mrs. Francis Biddle...