Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times ready for war?" Three years ago, on Dday, facing the coast of Normandy, Ike Eisenhower commanded the mightiest military force of men, guns, ships, and planes in history, and most of it was U.S. strength. Not even the most extreme of U.S. military now contend that the U.S. should still have such a force or anything like it. But the Army and Air Forces over which Ike Eisenhower now presides are little more than skeletons...
While today's registrants have only the rigors of book-buying to contend with this week, the new enrollees have, for today, an orientation meeting at 9 o'clock in New Lecture Hall, a preliminary meeting of English Aa at 4 o'clock in the same place, and a Hygiene Department meeting at 5 o'clock, also in New Lecture Hall...
...economy. The Communist Korean Government in the north was having its own difficulties; its food supply was shorter than that in the south, its regime unpopular with many of the people. But it had a Russian-equipped army at least 100,000 strong, and it did not have to contend with the confused intrigue of 200 political parties as Hodge did in the south. Nevertheless, there was still a chance, thanks largely to Hodge, that Korea would not become a Communist puppet state...
Those who contend that U.S. education has thrown the three Rs out the window were rubbing their hands last week. In a New York City high school, 36 students were asked to spell "thermometer." Nineteen got it right; the 17 who got it wrong misspelled it 16 different ways-therometer, thermomitor, thrmometer, termometer, themoneter, thermomiter, tenmometer, thermonter, theometer, themometer, themoeter, termonter, thermoter, thermomter, theremothr, thirommeter...
Some House Masters contend that the money changers should be driven from the temple and that unsuspecting students should be spared the daily broadside of solicitation when they enter to take their meals. No doubt there has been a lack of system and order under present rules, and, on some days, the entrance to the dining halls have resembled the eastern end of Memorial Hall on registration day. But the Masters should remember that as much as they might desire it, College extracurricular life is College-centered and not House-centered and that the dining hall is the only place...