Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Hocking's article on "A Positive Role for America" is excused by a statement to the effect that it was written before the United States entered the war. Although the style is quite flat, the content is provocative, suggesting the possibility of an acceptable negotiated peace. Professor Hocking urges against taking a too bloodthirsty attitude towards our enemies, and believes that it may be possible to negotiate Hitler out of office...
...Nine years ago," he writes, "I was sitting in my house in the Grunewald in Berlin. I had my books around me. . . . I was content. I had not the remotest idea of ever moving from that house. Six years ago I was sitting in my tranquil, white-stuccoed house in Sanary, in the south of France. I had my books around me. ... I was content. I had not the remotest idea of ever moving from that house...
...book is divided into a Prologue, which sets forth the thesis in general terms, and sections on deflation in moral content, in economic policy, and in foreign policy. One need not agree with the validity of all the author's conclusions to recognize the value of his approach. His recognition that for the Roosevelt administration to produce a workable economic system it must employ methods which are the antithesis of Jeffersonian democracy is typically realistic...
...Japanese have a different situation on their hands in Formosa. Apparently they mistreated the mountain people there who did not accept Nippon rule. So the Japanese had to content themselves with enclosing their mountain province in an electrically charged barbed wire fence to at least prevent hostile tribes from raiding the civilized lowlands...
...winner of Thursday's contest will walk off the field the possessor of 12 points, while the loser will have to be content with 9. Other points are distributed according to the standings of the team...