Word: contended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though harried by bomb-dropping Italian warplanes, Sir Andrew chased the Italians until he came within sight of Italy's shores. Then, it being R. N. practice not to contend with shore batteries unless absolutely necessary, and because the day was done. Sir Andrew withdrew. Italian units undoubtedly followed him, but were careful not to catch up. In flat contradiction of the Italians' loud claims, Sir Andrew reported: no British casualties. Furiously the Italians flew after the home-ward-bound British, who again separated into three detachments. Loudly the Italians claimed the enemy had been routed, badly battered...
...with a heavy upstream tide to contend with, eight varsity crews got away. Had chilled onlookers not been disgruntled by long delay and frequent false alarms, they might have taken home memories of a great race...
...looks as if the East will dominate in the hurdles for the first time in many years. Dugger and Hall of Tufts must contend with Frank Fuller of Virginia, the Ivy League trio of Captain Jay Shields and Ted Day of Yale and Don Donahue of Harvard, George Gilson of Holy Cross, and Jim Smith of Temple in a splendid high hurdles field. The Tufts' ace will have Captain Walter Zittel of Cornell, Don Donahue, Harold Stickel of Pitt, and Warren Wittens of Pennsylvania for strong opposition in the low hurdles...
...have performed our task in a spirit of loving kindness. ..." Listeners looked at each other, wondered when the fireworks would start. They never did start. Long before the end it had dawned on the delegates that there would be no debate, because no one cared to get up and contend that nurture had nothing to do with intelligence. Said the final speaker, University of Chicago's Sociologist Ernest Watson Burgess: "[The] consensus [is] that intelligence, at least as measured by the I.Q., is not a constant and that it is a resultant both of hereditary and environmental factors...
...Christian Front does not plan any action against the Y.A.A., and Moran dismissed James as a "nut with too much money." "The Front has far too many serious opponents to contend with." Moran declared. He revealed that six or seven months ago he learned of the group's activities, and that James was expelled from Germany for alleged Communist activities...