Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even then the women might have subsided if Hartini had been content to accept the modest status of second wife. But she briskly moved her whole Solo household and her five children into Bogor Palace, began to entertain old friends, receive officials and carry on for all the world like Indonesia's First Lady, while Fatmawati shrank into the background. Whenever Soekarno traveled, Hartini traveled with...
Twins' Trio. Not content with one publishing success, Réaltiés' Frerejean and Rémon (known to staffers as "The Twins") have fathered three other successful publications. The trio: glossy, authoritative Connaissance des Arts, the most widely read art magazine in France (circ. 46,500); Benjamin, the only "serious" children's weekly in France (where parents also complain about comic books), with a circulation of 80,000; Entreprise, France's only business magazine. The semimonthly Entreprise (circ. 40,000) was stymied at first by the traditional secretiveness of the French businessman...
...Wilson, a much improved runner over last year, led the race up to the first mile. Then Reider took over and was out in front until he hit the 100-yard stretch to the finish line. Brew, content to let Reider have the lead for the middle part of the race, closed rapidly...
Because of the University's reluctance to extend Lamont's hours, Harvard students have often been content with requesting a comfortable, well-lighted study hall far different from the one in Memorial Church basement. The Union and Sever have often been on the list of possible locations. It is extremely doubtful, however, that a study hall of any variety would solve the problem. Lamont is the ideal place for freshmen to study. Thus, students will remain there as long as possible and, after eviction, return to the chaos of their dorms...
Cartoonist Ronald Searle's schoolgirls are probably the most evil creatures to appear in English letters since Shakespeare's lago. Not content to be confined to the pages of Punch, the horrible little monsters have now spread like a plague all over a British motion picture. If they have lost some of their sting in the transition, the girls are still as grotesquely humorous as they every were...