Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Navy is scouring U.S. colleges for 30,000 flyers a year. The armchair admirals, fuming to their hearts' content, will find out all about it in good time...
...Committee held that by breaking down barriers between the fields, Harvard graduates will have more of what is known as the "common content" in a liberal education, so that a chemistry major might feel perfectly at home in discussing sociology with a music concentrator. "A widely recognized shortcoming of modern education is the lack of interrelationship between courses outside the field of concentration," the report says...
...future officers a college education has changed this picture completely. Once scorned "cultural" subjects are now recognized as vital weapons. And with this change in attitude on the part of the Armed Forces, we must change our own attitude as well. We cannot afford to neglect the broad common content of our education, since we have seen that it is at last equally as important as electronics or industrial administration. Prospective infantry lieutenants who have come here to learn to think clearly and to acquire perspective must not be sidetracked into the mere memorization of facts, however practical...
Wisconsin-born Architect Wright went to Chicago as an apprentice draftsman in 1887, just when the first modern skyscrapers in the world were abuilding in that brawny city. While the rest of the U.S. was content with old-fashioned imitation Greek pillars and Victorian knickknacks, Chicago Architects William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Sullivan and John Root had thought out a new, austere type of building that was to dominate U.S. big-city architecture for half a century...
...worst feature of the wowser is that he is not content to spend his Sundays drably in sedate strolls or in solemn indoor sportlessness. He wants everyone else to be Sunday-drab, too. And for soldiers who are working like horses six days a week to save the wowser and his friends from the Jap, that is something to howl about...