Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor to serve the Student Council as senior chairman of its Committee on Tenure and Curriculum. In that year, as in the present, the Student Council saw in the continued decline of the tutorial system a major threat to the liberal content of Harvard education...
...When we sought surcease from bloodletting, you professed indifference; when we cried aloud for the safety of our members you answered-be content, 'twas always thus...
...Outman's employes were not content for long. Soon after they had signed, they heard President Truman's wage-price policy speech, in which he declared that industry as a whole could afford substantial wage increases without price increases. The ability of big business to absorb the higher wage costs, said Manufacturer Outman, put smaller concerns at a disadvantage in the competition for efficient labor. The end result: "a production slowdown throughout the small manufacturing concerns...
...failure of modern novelists since, and including, James Joyce is one of presumption and exorbitance. They are not content with the artificial figures which hitherto passed so gracefully as men and women. They try to represent the whole human mind and soul and yet omit its determining character-that of being God's creature with a defined purpose...
That is the land of lost content...