Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, Dewey & Dakin contend that the building cycle reached its peak in late 1942. Because the cycle is now on the downgrade, the expected boom will probably not develop. In the last month, builders have jittered over the same thing. But they blame it on high prices. Dewey & Dakin say it was in the cards all along...
...gist of it: there are two systems of television-all electronic (RCA), which has yet to go beyond black & white, and will not have color before 1951; part-mechanical (CBS), which has already developed color telecasting. The 12,000 U.S. sets today are black & white electronic, and many experts contend that in the end some sort of electronic method will be universally adopted for colors. It is up to FCC to decide whether color shall be introduced now, with mechanical television, or whether it must wait on all electronic development. Until FCC makes up its mind, few want...
More and more, veterans and veteran organizations are advocating that the government increase its contribution to the ex-serviceman's education. They contend that the government has committed itself to a certain course of action and has made guarantees to veterans--guarantees which are not being fulfilled. This argument carries a good deal of validity because whether the GI bill was intended to cover all or only a given percentage of the cost of a college education, it is failing to serve its original purpose...
Precedent bore out Kalleck's observation. On 27 previous occasions U.S. Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party. The father of Senator Robert Taft had spent two particularly anguished years of deadlock. A sick and beaten Woodrow Wilson had watched an antagonistic Republican Senate reject his League. Hapless Herbert Hoover had scolded and quarreled while a Democratic House hamstrung him throughout the desperate end of his divided Administration...
...poetry as such a dark art that many an intelligent reader has given it up as sense-making literature, written by human beings for human beings. In this book, Poets Gregory and Zaturenska (Mrs. Gregory) do a good deal to bring the 20th Century Pegasus back to earth. They contend that U.S. poetry in this century, gaming "in the virility and'brilliance of its speech," has become the best in the English-speaking world...