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Word: contented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earle is not content to let this statement go unproven, however; he buttresses his argument with numerous incidents in our history as well as statements by our political leaders. For example, he returns to Jefferson, favorite prototype of contemporary isolationists, to show that even he was willing "to marry our selves to the British fleet and nation" in order to prevent Napoleon from occupying Louisiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...line with their policy to make the book's 264 pages less serious and more peppy, each page is bi-colored, and the "Forward" and "Content" sections are decorated by cartoons by Sam Ansell '44. Highlighting the feature section of the book is a humorous sketch of a Freshman's career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 725 '44 Redbooks to Be Mailed Next Week | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

...arguments advanced by Mr. Dennis can not be overcome by the simple expedient of ignoring them or preventing their spread and publication. Like any other intellectual arguments, they must be met and refused purely on the basis of their own content and merit. The CRIMSON feels that in printing the two advertisements to which Messrs. Rand, Dur, and Field refer, it contributed to its readers' knowledge of the logic of American Fascism, and, thereby, to their ability to meet that logic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorial Note | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

Pottinger's book, moreover, practices what it preaches. Printed in Bembo type, a recently revived old style roman which is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful ever made, the book is a masterpiece of design. Not only for its content but also for its sheer beauty, therefore, "Printers and Printing" is thoroughly worth owning...

Author: By D. R., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

...reconcile fact and abstraction, spent his life in a ceaseless effort to do likewise. That effort made him what he said of Goethe: "The cow from which the rest drew their milk." His conceptions of "the infinitude of the private man," of the equality of all souls, of content as above expression (to the point of windy disregard for expression), of the poet as seer or prophet, of the intuitive moment as final knowledge, of all things as symbols-these (and a luminous excitement over democracy) were the stock-in-brain of all Transcendentalists, but it was Emerson who articulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Masterpieces | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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