Word: contend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University soccer team will meet Northeastern this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock on the field behind the Business School. The Boston team will be the hardest foe Harvard has yet had to contend with this season, having won the last 15 games it has played, over this fall and part of last season. Harvard has won all four games it has played so far this season, defeating Dartmouth by the score of 2 to 0; Bridgewater Normal 7 to 2; Syracuse 1 to 0; and Worcester Polytechnic Institute 3 to 0. Only one legitimate goal has been counted against...
...great, big get-together . . . mingling in friendly contact . . . learning the difficulties with which each other has to contend . . . comradeship . . . better understanding . . . engaged in a fight for a common cause...
...witnesses produced tennis of a far higher brand than the Tilden-Hunter final of the national singles championship held within the last few weeks on the same Forest Hills courts. This is of course partly explained by the equality of the two players, a factor which few will contend existed in the amateur championship play. But it is nevertheless significant that pro tennis is taking its place among the recognized sporting spectacles...
...refusal of independent oil producers to enter any limitation agreement until a duty is placed upon petroleum imports. They contend that the major oil companies will reduce their domestic production only to increase their imports from Mexico and South America, thus nullifying the effect of any conservation agreement. In this position the independents were joined by Louisiana, to which most U. S. oil imports come. Crude oil imports are now about one-tenth of domestic production...
Subway contractors in the U. S. have labor troubles, landslides and politics to contend with. Seldom if ever is their work stopped by any Ministry of Fine Arts...