Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York hockey club, is one of the fastest, most graceful skaters in professional hockey. He seldom scores. Usually, when he has got past the defense and tried a shot he does not follow the puck like his bald teammate, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson, but skates gracefully back, content that he has made an effort. Last Saturday in Boston young Murdock got angry when Indian-faced Hitchman of Boston, wearing a patch of plaster over each eye, had thrown him against the boards. Three times Murdock went down the ice, scored twice in thirty-two seconds, earned his team a tie with...
...supposes that Claire will have to content herself with one of the numerous flood-created bachelors who stalk woman-hungry through the book; but the last page of this palpitating yarn brings a grand climax that sends the reader's imagination reeling off upon further and seemingly inevitable crises and conflicts...
Again, there is Hoover, the amateur in politics,--the ingenue among the curly wolves. It may be true that in 1920 Hoover was content to trust his preconvention campaign to as fine a group of mechanical engineers, prize orators, and textbook authors as were ever lost in a wilderness of politics. But that...
...status as a minor sport golf resembles polo. The machinery of each makes it caviar to the general, and thus neither has any financial rating in an athletics-for-all policy. Although golf must be content with its present lot in the Harvard budget, one indirect benefit has appeared. Greens fees and expensive course privileges may have put' golf on an undemocratic basis, but the sport not enjoyed by the many is given a clear position of importance that is, if nothing else, honorary...
...very midst of all the heated bickering, meanwhile, Charles Augustus Lindbergh set out from the very field where the Columbia lay fueled and ready to start, touching ground again 33 hours and 29 minutes later in mad Paris. Chamberlin had to be content to finish second in the race across the Atlantic. Half in admiration, he reports Mr. Levine in love with flying. Halfway across the Atlantic Enthusiast Levine forced the Columbia into a 17,000-foot drop from which she was extracted with difficulty. Over Germany, Levine ordered the plane flown until the last drop of gas was gone...