Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smoked out, Colonel Bingham was unrepentant. "I stand by every word," he said. "Speaking as the perfect snob,* I contend that old army tradition-call it old-school-tie tradition if you like-has much to recommend it. . . . Every army must be run on autocratic, as distinct from democratic, principles." He did not recall that the officers of two of the world's most successful armies, Napoleon's and Hitler's, were almost all recruited from the working classes...
Veteran Ted Schoenberg, of the 128-pound class, a letterman of two years standing, will probably turn in the best performance this afternoon, with 155-pound Dick Thomas, another letterman, a close accord. Johnny Burnham and Tom Rogsiad, two of last year's numeral winners, will contend in the 121 and unlimited classes, while Senior Dick Davidson will grapple in the 165-pound spot...
Your map clearly shows that the Irish ports would be useful to Britain. Could it not also be used to show they would be useful to Germany, and will anyone contend that Germany would be justified in demanding them on the grounds of their usefulness...
...rolled to the Old State House (Independence Hall). Day after day thereafter the sages, the patriots, the thoughtful men of the Colonial States gathered, debated, voted, reconsidered, revised, labored mightily, always in the light of Ben Franklin's wise words. . . . "We are sent here to consult, not to contend...
Said unhappy "Hap" Arnold: "We have not placed the contracts [for 4,200] . . . due to the fact that the industry feels that there are so many uncertainties, unknown quantities that they have to contend with. . . . The Vinson-Trammell [profit limitation] Act has something to do with it; taxes; uncertainties with regard to labor. ..." Said Rear Admiral Towers, recalling that Congress had cut the allowed profit on Navy contracts and Army aircraft contracts from 12 to 8%: "There are two reasons. The reduction in . . . profit . . . has made it very difficult for the aircraft manufacturer to place subcontracts [which] work out about...