Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Challenge. Said the New York Times in an editorial: "We need not be frightened by this apparent threat. . . . The European challenge is essentially one to American brains. Our . . . chemists must redouble their zeal. . . . Our chemical industry really has no more reason to fear Europe than has our steel industry, always...
Birdmaker Brancusi's U. S. attorney said: "Brancusi takes this action against "The Bird" as a challenge to all his art and to his reputation." Director William Henry Fox offered to buy "The Bird" for the Brooklyn Museum, "if the funds and the sculpture were available."
It is not necessary, without positive proof, to blame hidden influences for the silence of the press in such a case. Mr. McCullough--granting that his opinion on Mexican affairs may carry weight--does not make sufficient allowance for the nature of a modern newspaper. Marvellous, in its completeness and...
Premier Baldwin later in the day made extension of the franchise the strongest point of his speech on government policy, promising to make Britain "truly democratic" before the next general elections. He then charged Viscount Rothermere, Tzar of British newspaperdom, with sole opposition to granting young women the vote and...
Ben Jonson was another Elizabethan who ate at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, as it was then called. Once a dispute arose as to who could most quickly make the best couplet. Poet Joshua Sylvester took up the challenge and penned: