Word: contend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route to the East around Africa. A victorious Rebel Spain, owing its very existence to German and Italian arms, was expected to join up with the dictators. Instead of having a weak, friendly Spain to her south, France would now have a strong, militarized, probable enemy to contend with. Democratic France, in short, would be bounded on three sides by Fascist powers working in concert...
They see the fight between men and machines as the central drama of our time, but they think the solution lies in controlling machines, not hating them. The great industrial novel, they contend, will be written when men cease dreaming of such sentimentalities as a return to handicraft, a moratorium on inventions. Such a novel, they prophesy, will find its ideal subject in the automobile industry...
Duncan Longcope '41, and Tom Lacey '41 are slated to fight for the 175-lb. berth. Prospect for the 155-lb. post is another Sophomore, Bunny Barnes, while Bruce Richardson '41 and Art Page '40 will contend for the 145-lb. position...
...group hopelessly prejudiced one way or the other, or else the results of its investigation have been buried deep in the files of libraries, there to rot away and never become available to the reading public. When the results of impartial research are made generally known, they contend, a workable national program can be drawn...
...keep their cattle on the uplands lest they be devoured. On the uplands there were few streams of water. With the eerie ingenuity which savages sometimes manifest, the herders built "dew ponds" which stayed full of water though the animals drank from them every day. Some modern authorities contend that rain contributes practically all of the ponds' water supply, but others disagree, claiming that dew-moisture condensed from the air- provides the important portion...