Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electric power centre. An enormous sustained French artillery pounding, presaged last week by increased aerial reconnaissance and exploratory fire, would be quite in keeping with the Liddell Hart "super-guerrilla" plan (see col. 2). Unless his British friends should insist on action more precipitate, Generalissimo Gamelin appeared content to reply to the Stefani report: "After you, Adolf...
...strong Bellboy line turned back the Winthrop backs with few or no gains for three out of four quarters in their close content, and in the final quarter made two goal line stands, and in the end it was a fumble that robbed the Lowell team of a well deserved...
...being in a position . . . [because of time and money] ... to continue the experiments," said Dr. Davidson, "I made a bold step, administering the filtrate to a human subject with carcinoma of the breast, who had previously been given a special high vitamin-content diet." To his delight, the cancer dried up, and in a year the woman was able to walk three or four miles every day. However, when she left her vitamin diet, the cancer soon returned and she died shortly afterward. Another patient, who suffered from cancerous growths on the side of his neck, was cured after...
...these well-governed, well-content heathens, British rule proclaimed itself taking over to preserve order and administer justice. In Kikuyu eyes British rule merely looked like the invention of lunatics. Even more incomprehensible was the Christian religion. Why, asked incredulous natives, did God scorn polygamy when "only poor men have one wife, and God does not like poor men." Why pray when there is no immediate bad luck! An old man, dying a few years after British occupancy, summed up for his generation: "Soon I shall die, for I have seen enough...
...Comrade Stalin sits quietly waiting for his inning in history, content that Adolf and Germany and Fascism were Waterlooed in Moscow...