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Word: contented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived up to his promise, for Friday afternoon a whole tribe of "noble savages," dressed in blankets and other Indian trimmings, made a full-scale attack on Stoughton. Yard cops and students, however, managed to repulse the onslaught, and the red-men had to be content with pitching a tepee north of the Old Pump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Raids Focus On Yard | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...price, make up the difference by taking ads. This was tried in a Spanish-language edition for Latin America in December 1940. It sold so well (it now guarantees 1,000,000 circulation) that the Digest has followed it with 13 other editions* in eight different languages. The editorial content is the same as the U.S. edition (circ. 8,000,000) but more so: it is further digested, to about two-thirds the domestic size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Digest's Digests | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...content with a disconnected cluster of acts, Mr. Daves has hamstrung his movie by injecting a series of truly fascinating coincidences into the plot. Lauren Bacall just happens to be near San Quentin when Bogy escapes, a blackmailer just happens to pick him up in a car, thereby wasting thirty minutes of story time, and the killer just happens to cheat justice by carelessly stumbling out a twenty-five story window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/11/1947 | See Source »

...potential starters and a first-line replacement will definitely be out of Saturday's Virginia content, Coach Harlow learned last night after practice...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Two Starters Hurt, Cannot Face Virginia | 10/8/1947 | See Source »

...personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A., one professor of history props up a seating chart of his 150 students next to his shaving mirror until he commits it to memory. But the university recognizes its limitations. Says popular Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand: "The big institution must be content to be a place of opportunity rather than a place of compulsion. It is no place for a student of unformed character and uncertain purpose. [But] the presence of the mob need not seriously interfere with the education of the gifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Man on Eight Campuses | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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