Word: contend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps no department in the University has suffered more to survive and to come into its own than the Graduate School of Education. Like Sociology, Government, even English--which long ago had to contend with the classics for existence, the School had to beat and claw a way into what it deserved...
...Several "gold clause" cases in which holders of Liberty bonds, payable in "gold coin" but called up for redemption in "legal tender," contend that the redemption call was invalid and that the U. S. still owes them interest on the bonds...
Eunice left her school in Sneedville this spring when Teacher Wade Ferguson switched her for "jumping around." What Teacher Ferguson had to contend with was revealed last week by Eunice's father-in-law, Nick Johns, who turned up in Treadway to inquire about the possibilities of an annulment. He snorted: "She can't learn nothin' in school and she can't learn nothin' at home. I tried to learn her at home, but she don't even know her ABC's. She can't count...
Ashurst: That is all I contend...
...publish. . . . The war is already made. Not a preliminary war. Not a local conflict. The actual war between the fascist powers and the things they would destroy, the war against which we must defend ourselves. . . . And in that war. that Spanish war on Spanish earth, we, writers who contend for freedom, are ourselves, and whether we so wish or not, engaged...