Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President called for daylight saving as a national defense measure. A mighty man is Franklin Roosevelt, with many powers unknown to Joshua, but last week he bumped spang up against something Joshua didn't have to contend with: the psyche...
...transcendent Oscar in the onetime cavalryman's lap. The squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, determined to use his hard-won franchise on the world's richest mine of entertainment material, not only had to play cook & bottle washer but also had the redoubtable Shavian personality to contend with...
...than last year's star-studded aggregation. If the top men can break even, Harvard should have the strength down the line to win most of its matches. The league is weaker than it was a year ago for there are no more Meisters, Bingham's or Schriebers to contend with, but Yale is always a tough nut to crack, and Dartmouth and Holy Cross will be improved. The Crimson can come in anywhere from first to fourth, depending on how the four-footers drop when the chips are down...
...awoke one morning last week, night rain had streaked the canvas tents, soaked the company street, filled the water buckets that hung on pine rails before each tent. The men were pleased: whatever winter, mud and the Army might inflict on them that day, they would not have to contend with choking Georgia dust when they paraded their tanks past...
...Nieman Fellow may take a course for credit towards a degree of any sort. They therefore have no examinations to contend with, and from an undergraduate viewpoint, work in an unorthodox manner. A few lectures, considerable reading, dinners, and many conversations supply the bulk of their time. Lectures are not as popular as might be supposed; the men have not the time to follow a subject comprehensively through a series of lectures. They prefer instead to go off on their own and dig up the ideas in which they are particularly interested...