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Word: contented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years a journalist in the Orient, Ernest O. Hauser has not been content to meet the East over a Scotch & soda in Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. He has dug his way deep into the mysteries of Oriental temperament. Honorable Enemy is a knowing and compassionate portrait of the Japanese character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Inscrutable Scrutinized | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...Bindery's work is not limited to bookbinding alone. Under the direction of Fiske, who became manager, the Bindery has made extensive tests in such fields as the acid content of paper, flexible vs. hard glue, and particularly the tanning of book leathers. Some of these tests have doubtless been of great value to the bookbinding industry in general...

Author: By Dana REED ., | Title: Bindery Repairs 13 Miles of Books | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

COUNTRY NOTES IN WARTIME-V. Sackvllle-West - Doubleday, Doran . ($ I). The title & author fully predict the content: meditations, deliberately minor and pacific, tenderly written. For those who want loud talk for loud times, she explains: "My only excuse can be that the determination to preserve such beauty as remains to us is also a form of courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spring Books | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

After battling on even terms for four hours yesterday, the Varsity tennis team finally had to be content with a 4 1/2 to 4 1/2 deadlock with Williams as the number one doubles match was called off on account of darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACKETMEN FIGHT WILLIAMS TO TIE | 5/8/1941 | See Source »

...been a dignified one. While a few enthusiasts gather together and disband without plan or consistency, the vast body of students, faced by the confusion, have been inclined to give up a fair-minded appreciation of both sides, turn to the funny page, and rest content without further questioning of their own or others' attitudes. A committee, group, or union organized with a particular conviction in mind inevitably degenerates into an agency for propaganda, particularly since it must compete for the ear of the public. Propaganda shies away from reasoned argument and open-minded hearings of the opposition, and squanders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Much Pressure | 4/30/1941 | See Source »

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