Word: contend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cartooning, as in every other creative art, original ideas count a good deal more than any machine-like reproductive quality. For example, the modern newspaper artist, in addition to creating three hundred and sixty-five different ideas each year, must contend with the difficulty of working 'out of the weather,' that is, in order to insure publication at a given date he must have his material ready from six to eight weeks ahead. Thus on a cool June day the artist must be mentally sweating under a torrid August sun, while in October his characters are busily shoveling snow...
...still contend that he has no sense of humor. Your instance of his pushing a bell and scampering away while detectives look around to find out who did it (TIME, Jan. 21) indicates rather that he has fallen into his second childhood. I have a boy, eight, who pushes the doorbell and scampers...
Another ideal of the company is to popularize opera by giving it to the public at regular theatre prices. They contend that more people would attend opera if prices were not so exorbitant for the average purse...
...Hughes sought to pinion Nominee Smith on Water Power by inquiring why "Government operation" had been omitted from the Boston speech. That was the teat, he said. "Government operation" would mean "State socialism." "Let Governor Smith clarify his position. . . . Does Governor Smith contend that the Government has the right, under the Constitution of the United States, to engage in the power business, irrespective of flood control, navigation, irrigation or scientific research or national defense...
...weight behind Mr. Mellon's presidential pronouncement this year was, of course, primarily the weight of "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton." Critics may well contend that the reductions of taxes and of public debt, and the funding of foreign loans that have been accomplished during the Mellon regime, could have been compassed by any other competent banker; that the Mellon genius is mythical and that between it and Prosperity, if any, there is not the remotest connection. But the politically important fact remains that Mr. Mellon and not some other banker has been...