Word: contended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning, the submarines had to contend with faulty torpedoes. Monotonously the patrol reports recited: "Torpedoes ran true . . . didn't explode." Once they did begin to explode, Japan began to bleed to death. Says Beach: "In 1944, approximately half of the ships departing from [Japanese Empire ports] found their final destination at the bottom...
Recent graduates registered the only complaints that any alumni have against the School. They contend that they spent two years "learning to act like corporation presidents, and then they found little use for it." But old-timers reply, "Have patience. The payoff comes after five years...
...carried on in other parts of the world, or not On the other hand, concede for a moment that the sophisticated are correct in assuming that rallys have no place in student life, are a danger to the public, and should be suppressed by law. One must still contend with the methods used by the police here in Cambridge to disperse the meeting. Are the police warranted in handling the situation which arose last night in such a brutal and callous manner...
...What profess to be realistic stories for children are likely to deceive them. I never expected the real world to be like the fairy tales. I think I did expect school to be like the school stories. The fantasies did not deceive me. The school stories did . . . Some people contend that we must try to keep out of a child's mind the knowledge that he is born into a world of death, violence, wounds, adventure, heroism and cowardice, good and evil. It is ludicrous so to educate a generation born to the OGPU and the atomic bomb. Since...
Your editorial of Saturday, May 3, "Released Principle," takes issue with the majority decision of the Supreme Court which upheld the released time principle for religious education. You contend that this decision marks the beginning of an insidious intrusion of pressure groups into public education...