Word: contended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having varsity teams and the college spirit is being fostered." Follows a disquisition on college spirit and discontent, and then: "Next year I think there will be no faculty members here but who are loyal to the Administration. They may be critical but we will not have to contend with such an antagonistic group as we have had in the past." The presidential defense then proceeds to admit the curtailment of famous departments, which is attributed to lack of funds, and to attribute the ill feeling to the fact that the president turned out the lights during a radical address...
...from Oklahoma Senator Moses believes are in " some doubt." The two Walshes -from Massachusetts and Montana -the Republicans hope to defeat, but Senator Moses admits " it will be no easy fight to beat either of these." In addition there will be the seat of Alva B. Adams to contend for. Of the 17 Republicans whose seats will be in question, at least seven will be hard fights: Edge of New Jersey, Ball of Delaware, McCormick of Illinois, Phipps of Colorado, Bursum of New Mexico, MacNary of Oregon, Sterling of South Dakota...
...latest tennis star to arrive in America seeking the Davis Cup is Masamosuke Fukuda, of the Japanese team. Fukuda, recent graduate of Waseda University, is described as a " sensation" on the courts of the Orient. His euphonious name completes an exotic array of players who will contend in the Davis Cup lists this year. The following are culled from the rosters of the French, Indian and Japanese teams: Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Lacoste, Fyzee Ramaswami, Ranga Rao, Jaga, Mohan Lai, Zenzo Shimidzu...
...willing to accept $6,500,000,000 for the expense of reconstructing the devastated areas. It is pointed out that the United States bill is about 20% of the amount asked by France, and that by no stretch of imagination could the Government of the United States contend that they had sustained one-fifth of the damage done to France during...
...Legal Aid Bureau had difficulties to contend with in getting under way this year. Very few men remained from the previous year, many graduating and some going to the Law Review. Therefore the Bureau was composed almost entirely of second and third-year men with no previous experience in the work. Furthermore it took some time for clients to learn that the Bureau was again holding office hours after the six months since the previous March that the Bureau had been closed. However, the men went to work with excellent spirit and have done much to help extend justice...