Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every so often a publisher will issue a book whose title bears little obvious relation to its content. This is one of those cases. George Soule, an editor of the New Republic, is not concerned with the material strength of a nation in terms of geo-politics or raw materials. Nor is he dealing with moral or ethical factors. The book is rather a frank attempt to synthesize a new social theory from the tangled threads of the several social sciences as they exist today...
...TIME was wrong about the content of Mexican tires, neglected to report that they give good service on Mexican roads. But the tire-users whom TIME consulted do not recommend them...
Were the Japanese growing weary of war and content with their victories? A Navy spokesman in Tokyo implied as much, warning them against sloth, needling them to further effort...
With 267 concentrators listed last November, English is the second largest field in the College, only surpassed by Government. Because of their very nature the courses in English have not been altered in content or number, but have simply seen internal shiftings of emphasis, The fundamental courses, especially, will retain their ante-bellum form, but the department foresees the necessity of trimming its "topsails." One expected addition this summer, however, will be English 190b, Literature and Democracy, to be given by Faculty Instructor Harry Levin with Associate Professor Perry Miller this summer and Associate Professor Francis O. Matthiessen next winter...
...Arrau at 38 is an old hand in the concert field. As a lad of 20 he made a short U.S. tour in 1924, but failed to go over, and left with a poor opinion of U.S. musical taste. Europe promptly claimed him. Until the war, Pianist Arrau was content to divide his lucrative concert time between Europe and South America, playing 125 concerts a year...