Word: contended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their report's central thesis is "the value of a sound liberal education as a preparation for life and also as an educational basis for later vocational training." With this criterion, the authors blast away at students, teachers, colleges and medical schools alike. Present medical school admission requirements, they contend, attract a vocationally oriented group of students to liberal arts colleges. Many of these students have little interest in courses which do not obviously contribute to their occupational objectives. The students are not entirely to blame, however. Medical schools, for instance, contribute to overspecialization by suggesting lists of "recommended" science...
...sidelines of abstention gained momentum. "Elections are only 18 months off," explained one observer. "If, by then, rearming Germany still worries Frenchmen, the abstainers can say, 'Don't blame us; we didn't vote for it.' If the Germans behave, the abstainers can contend, 'After all, we didn't stand in the way of the treaties.' " Socialists, pledged to vote for rearmament, began to panic...
...moderation? The anticolonial powers (mostly the Arabs, the Asians and the Latin Americans) claim moral victory in the postponements, on the grounds that by postponing "for the time being," instead of flatly refusing to take up the cases, the General Assembly in effect accepts jurisdiction. The colonial powers, who contend that these are internal matters outside U.N. competence, consented to the postponement resolutions because each contained in its ambiguous language the tools for postponing next time and the time after that. Greece, for all the intensity of its desire for control of Cyprus (whose people are of Greek stock...
...week the whole apparatus made both Time and Newsweek, and since then the calls have come rolling in, one a minute, so fast that Mrs. Emery is on busier the ever trying to keep the machine clear for new messages. And to make matters worse, she now has to contend with a conglomeration of illegitimate creatures: Bald eagles with brief eases, Salton stall birds, and pink ducks with blue stripes, all reported anonymously. The finishing blow, however, was supplied by the up-to-date machine itself when it collapsed last week under the unnerving load of bird inquiries...
Even if Harvard were to expand, it wouldn't make much difference, proponents of the status quo contend. Even if the College doubled in size, it would be providing educational facilities for only 1.6 percent of the increase in the year 1960 alone. There are a number who will argue, then, that the college would be better advised to spend it money for improvement of present facilities...