Word: contender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these who contend that the methods are hostile to one another we reply that experimentation should better enable them to judge of that, and ask whether they would favor the complete elimination of one system without first trying a combination, or without at least passing through gradual stages toward the elimination. Perhaps the design we shall propose is far from the ultimate form which our educational system will take, but it is in line with the progressive tendency of the times, and it respects yet the place to which tradition is entitled...
...court. Two of them-Sylvester J. Pierce, administrator of the disputed estate, and Warren Kennedy, marshal of the red men's court-were taken prisoners for contempt. Their attorney, George P. Decker of Rochester, carried the case to Washington, where it became public last week. The red men contend that the patches of Seneca land, totaling 50,000 acres, constitute an independent sovereignty. They base their bold thought not only upon immemorial residence but also upon a solemn treaty concluded by the U. S. with the Six Nations in 1794. Indians in Oklahoma and elsewhere have sworn allegiance...
...then a real fever, a mad desire to make everything uniform.* There followed a wholesale production of nonsense, and the plant is still in 100% operation. . . . Mr. Madison's ideas of the rights of the States are still worth fighting for; it is not yet futile to contend against Federal larceny by constitutional amendment, and it is still worth while to give battle against the half-brother of Federal larceny, the pressure for uniformity...
...this brilliant Jew was chosen from among a host of hereditary British statesmen to represent the Emperor in India, the highest and most responsible administrative position which the Crown has to offer. During his term of office, he has had to contend with Gandhi, Das and other nationalist leaders; and, in spite of being entirely out of sympathy with the Montague-Chelmsford reforms (progressive Indianization and autonomy within the Commonwealth), he has proved himself a patient, able and sagacious pilot in one of the most threatening storms that have beset the ship of India...
...Those circumstances are three in number lack of time, the movies, and the radio. Life for the theatre person is difficult at best, but with these elements to contend against road companies are becoming obsolete. And with their disappearance, parts are limited in number...