Word: contended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peace. Some U.S. military leaders, especially in Army circles, argue that wars would then be conducted with "conventional" weapons in the style and on the scale of World War II. Others contend that there would be open season on brush wars of Korea's size and shape, with limited use of the tactical atomic bomb. Pundit Walter Lippmann suggests that guerrilla warfare might become the only thinkable type of conflict. Another possibility: since no nation could be expected to submit to ultimate defeat through the attrition of a series of limited wars, the tendency would be for such wars...
Some companies still contend that fundamental research should all be done on the campus, where it is free from sales-department pressure. Others work closely with universities. Du Pont helps keep in academic touch by retaining 70 university professors as consultants. Many company research centers, e.g., G.E.'s Schenectady laboratories, cultivate a "congenial" atmosphere of academic leisure. Industrial jobs frequently give top scientists greater freedom than university posts...
...Washington Post refers to that paper as "celebrated in song by John Philip Sousa's march bearing its name." For years Sousa led the famous U.S. Marine Corps band quartered at Marine headquarters, Washington, D.C. - long known as the Washington post of the Marine Corps. I therefore contend that this martial air of Sousa's is the "Washington Post March" and not that of the Washington Post...
Authorities contend that the 14-meal system would increase board costs for a majority of students, with only small savings for a minority, due to increased bookkeeping expenses...
...wartime veterans the commission was strongly in favor of temporary readjustment aids such as those in the G.I. Bill of Rights, and urged that they be given the stature of basic principle. But as for the long pull, it is false to contend that "just because the uniform was worn for a while, the Government owes the former wearer a living. The ordinary losses of time and opportunity while in military service must be regarded as part of the responsibilities of a citizen, and only extreme or extraordinary handicaps should be regarded as creating an obligation on the Government...