Word: contend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might argue that the question of the isolation of science is too much for secondary education, and that only the college can handle it. Not many colleges are interested or capable, of course, but even those that try do not succeed very well. They have to contend with two sorts of prejudices built up in high schools--the idea that math and science are either much too difficult or much too boring for the ordinary, healthy student, or the other snobbery that regards any history course at all as an imposition on the time of the budding engineer. The best...
...newest method goes straight back to the oldest. Among the growing number of researchers who contend that nothing beats wafting breath with the lungs is a group from Baltimore City Hospitals and the universities of Maryland and Buffalo. They measured the exact volume of air that each method forced into the lungs of 16 volunteers, all anesthetized and paralyzed with a shot of a compound resembling curare. Summarizing 27 such experiments in the current New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers found that neither trained nor untrained operators using either the Schafer or Nielsen methods under field conditions could move...
...teacher, I have long noted the increasing anti-intellectualism in our schools. The products of the teachers' colleges, who have entrenched themselves in positions of authority in every state, are, for the most part, intellectually inert themselves, know little or nothing about subject matter, and what is worse, contend openly and brazenly that knowledge of subject is of secondary importance...
...revenue by stimulating economic activity; for example, the Government lost some $5 billion yearly in revenue when it cut taxes in 1954, but within a year, as the tax cut helped push the boom forward once more, revenue was up $7.8 billion. Those in favor of a tax cut contend that it is a more effective spur than a public-works program. A tax cut can be made fast, putting cash directly into pockets for spending on consumer goods in about two months, thus quickly affecting production. A public-works program takes time to get started, may have no effect...
...fires. He burns it up according to the dictates of his own four-footed psyche; his jockey is only along for the ride. He breaks from the gate like a common sprinter, races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins to run again only when he rounds the stretch turn and heads for the crowd again. Says Co-Owner Tom Ross: "I swear, he counts the house...