Word: contender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They have not only side problems to keep out of the picture* but a mixed group of interests to contend with: Chile and several other nations whose political sympathies are with Fascism; Mexico whose sympathies are with Communism; Argentina who wants to support the League of Nations; Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and several small nations who would like to withdraw from the League of Nations to form an American League. Almost anything might come out of this combination because the agenda are broad enough to cover two continents. They permit the consideration of creating an Inter-American Court of Justice...
Even if it were true that 'overshooting' has made the birds so much more difficult to approach, then, so far from spoiling the sport, I contend that it enhances it, for, after all, it is difficulties overcome, far more than the actual bag brought home, that makes wildfowling what...
...inconsequential Dutch book had suddenly given me a vision of a small building near the sluggish Charles River where a few men, far removed from civilization, had banded together to keep the torch of learning burning brightly in their distant wilderness. That wilderness with which the founders had to contend has now been tamed. But we are threatened by another wilderness. We are threatened by a mental confusion such as the world has not seen since the last of the Roman legionaries were recalled from the borders of the Rhine. And Harvard, for all we know, may once again become...
...titles of some of the papers. Such titles as "Serological and Allergic Reactions with Simple Chemical Compounds," "Sedimentation in Relation to Faulting," or "The Kinematical Structure of a Spatially Uniform Universe" give an idea of the difficulties that some of the crack minds in the newspaper world had to contend with in order to prepare a daily story for popular consumption...
Italy's tyrants, suggests Spivak, are clowns, its people poltroons. Benito Mussolini has the worst economic situation in Europe and the least rebellion to contend with. Nevertheless, though every Fascist officer says, "There are no strikes in Italy," Spivak dug out records of 153 illegal strikes under Fascism. The humblest Italian is paralyzed with fear by the secret police ("The Bats") headed by an imitation Mussolini. Another imitation Mussolini, handsome President Tullio Cianetti of the Confederation of Labor, conceded that "Fascism has not abolished the class struggle or class distinctions." Mussolini, says Spivak, has smashed the middle classes, degraded...