Word: contend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...once so radical and so harmful to the existing principles of the tennis regime can be anathematized as only one thing--insidious propaganda. What we want to know is who is at the bottom of all this? Is there any number of persons in this University who seriously contend that this new doctrine is in accord with the aims of this nation? No! By all means, No! As Freud in one of his customary nightmares might well have said, the very "rayon" will have departed forever from the game...
...Procession of Flowers starts the program of the day, a parade in which many classes of floats contend for prizes for the best floral decoration. High schools and colleges, hotels, cities and towns, all have their floats. This year the scope of the tournament has been extended, and cities from all parts of the West are entering floats in the contest...
...authors of the communication, mature graduates, seriously contend that a speaker is "insidiously subtle" who opens his address with the frank statement that he is a Bolshevist? Have the authors of the communication, when they assert that the United States is "internally and externally at war" with Russia, forgotten that power to declare war is vested only in Congress...
...there is any number of persons in this University, who seriously contend that the social and economic theories at present in practice in Soviet Russia are in any sense applicable to the traditions, institutions, and aims of this country, a frank and open statement from them to this effect would be welcome. F. P. MAGOUN, JR., 2G. W. C. BOYDEN, JR., 2L. S. C. WELCH 1G. G. C. BARCLAY 1L. G. A. BROWNELL...
...name mentioned in this incident is fictitious, but the occurrence is a true one, Mr. Straus does not contend--nor does anyone else--that it is typical of college men in general. The "superior" type is, fortunately, becoming relatively scarce. An examination of the names of men of achievement appearing in "Who's Who" shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma...