Word: contend
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Radicals contend that society is dividing into two rival classes; the middle-class trade unionists would apparently split it into three. If they are aiming, as they assert, to protect the consumer, they have overlooked the fact that capitalists and laborers are also consumers, who share the public interest equally with those persons who are eligible for middle-class trade unionism...
...promises of "open covenants openly arrived at," we have not been suddenly issued into an age of good-fellowship among nations. The compromises which President Wilson was forced to make at Paris furnish abundant evidence that European methods of diplomacy are still a force with which we must contend...
Bishop McConnell of Denver tried to answer the other questions. "The hardest thing the field worker has to contend with," he said, "is the example of his own country. Every time that a man puts a piece of chocolate in his mouth, he is exploiting the raw products of Africa. We must put humanity above production, and see in Mexico 15,000,000 human beings and not merely copper, and oil, and the possibility of rubber plantations...