Word: contend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...victory of the University association football team over Yale at New Haven on April 12 is especially gratifying considering the difficulties with which the team has had to contend. Captain Barron and the team are to be congratulated heartily upon their splendid work. From a nucleus of only six veterans, and in the face of the most discouraging weather conditions, there has developed a team which so far has not lost a scheduled game. Lynn, Haverford, Cornell and Yale have been disposed of; and the prospects are good for the two important games yet to be played, those against Pennsylvania...
While the football team is striving for victory on Yale Field this afternoon, the University cross-country team will contend for the Intercollegiate Championship at Ithaca. For the first time since the Intercollegiate run was established the Harvard team is picked to win. In the first race of the year the team won a hard-earned victory over the Cornell team, the Intercollegiate champions for the past three years. The "clean sweep" in the Yale race a week later is not only one of the greatest victories in the history of Harvard athletics, but is a feat unprecedented...
...travelled the distance this year in record time. Fogg of Syracuse has been a close second to his team-mate in all their races this spring, but will not run because of a bad tendon. Barron will have Bennett of Cornell, Haff of Pennsylvania, and Farrar of Yale to contend with for second place...
...attempt to accomplish this, he was forced to contend against the irresponsibility of a Los Angeles attorney, who in his craving for notoriety insisted upon making public every bit of information, regarding Mr. Burns's investigations that he could gather. He even went so far as to break in and rifle Mr. Burns's Los Angeles office in an attempt to find the detective's reports. Chiefly through this attorney's disclosures Mr. Burns was defeated in his purpose to bring the "big men" to justice and was forced to make his arrests prematurely. Notwithstanding the bribing of his operatives...
...aviator has a vast number of varying air currents to contend with, and he must therefore be acquainted with relative velocities and varying conditions of winds. To illustrate these conditions Professor Rotch showed charts on the screen of wind velocity and pressure at low and high altitudes. The pressure and velocity increase rapidly as the altitude increases. Charts were also shown of the prevalent winds. West winds are prevalent at high altitudes and in the winter. North of the equator the trade winds are northeasterly and south of the equator they are southeasterly. If the aviator or balloonist followed...