All 3 Uses of
contend
in
Arrowsmith
- But tonight, in detestation of such literary playboys as Brumfit, he exalted Gottlieb's long, lonely, failure-burdened effort to synthesize antitoxin, and his diabolic pleasure in disproving his own contentions as he would those of Ehrlich or Sir Almroth Wright.†
Chpt 2
- But what about Bordet's contention that it's an enzyme?†
Chpt 33 *
- He hurled overboard all the polemics with which he had protected himself: "Men who never have had the experience of trying, in the midst of an epidemic, to remain calm and keep experimental conditions, do not realize in the security of their laboratories what one has to contend with."†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(contend as in: She contended that...) to claim that something is true