Word: contend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a nasty and disagreeable article your correspondent wrote about the fair in San Diego [TIME, June 10). Well aware are we all that every exposition must contend with midways and sideshows. But that your representative should overlook the glorious beauty of the fairgrounds, which alone would warrant a visit from millions of visitors, is hard to forgive. Many subscriptions will you lose on the West Coast from this article, but not mine...
Invading English territory, the Rugby Club is sending a squad of 20 men to Bermuda during the spring vacation to contend with English teams and also with a Yale...
...creditors, and as such amounts to deprivation of property without due process of law. The only solid line of defense for the Government rests in the supposition that the sovereign power over money and foreign commerce must not be hamstrung by pre-existing arrangements by contract. Congress, New Dealers contend, may abrogate rights arising under a contract when such action is reasonably necessary to carry out some proper legislative object...
...proven his ability to diffuse even the dullest of material with a spirit of universally appealing humor, and by dial of his admirable skill "It's a Gift" is a truly amusing film. The general make up is typical of the sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably portrayed by Mr. Fields and there is a sequence in which he reveals the vain attempt of an harassed husband to secure a bit of rest...
Cases. The prosecution will contend that Hauptmann is guilty because...