Word: contended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those who contend that the original Carnary Islanders were related to African tribes point to the fact that they mumified there dead much in the fashion of the Egyptians. Many of the best specimens of Guanche mummies are to be found in the museum at Santa Cruz, the capital of the islands. There are also many who believe that the Guanches are direct descendants of the Cro-Magnon man and skull measurements seem to verify this. Among interesting relics left by these people are the rock drawings on the island of Gomera, the southern-most of the Canaries...
...Steuer replied: " If ever there was a Sergeant Buzfuz I had to contend with him for five weeks . . . Dickens did not dislike lawyers . . . He wrote the character of Sergeant Buzfuz in the hope that he would eliminate from the English bar the shysters that indulged in deceptions upon juries...
Hamilton Gardner of Buffalo was a game finalist, but had tournament fever as well as Evans to contend with. He was 6 down with 4 to play...
...Chinese political leaders are not entirely antipathetic to these plans, but insist that if they are only left to themselves they can deal with the present political situation. They contend that foreigners only bolster up and corrupt incompetent governments by selling them arms and ammunition; then they blame the Chinese...
...engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, have reduced temperatures of over 100 degrees F. in low-level workings by as much as 15 degrees, through scientific ventilation. Temperatures in the depths of the earth increase from natural causes, but added to this the Butte mines have to contend with fires which have burned for many years in worked-out regions, one continuously since 1889. These fires feed on timber and combustible sulphides, and burning laterally and vertically, have so heated the adjacent rock and air as to render the lower veins untenable for human beings...