Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand shambles of an experiment," remarked that it unquestionably accomplished "the greatest good for the greatest number." Foot-&-mouth disease has scourged Europe for centuries; in the U.S. it is now nonexistent, thanks to John Mohler, who rocked comfortably on his Washington porch this week, unmedaled, unsung and content...
...election to the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in 1924 was the first of many unsought offices which led, in December 1931, to the Presidency. During his eleven and a half years as President he was content to remain a revered figurehead; not once did he challenge the political power of the Generalissimo...
...instructor (he trained Colin Kelly), Scott learned to study every pupil to see if he had the "positively necessary . . . urge for combat." To his surprise he discovered that "many of them still thought it was wrong to want to get in the air against an enemy," were content just to fly for airlines. When not flying or teaching, Scott collected orchids-"these beautiful plants" -which he grows for a hobby...
...which will be admirable exactly because we cannot now conceive them. . . . This is a moral and historical error into which Forster never falls; . . . The very relaxation of his style, its colloquial unpretentiousness, is a mark of his acceptance of the human fact as we know it now. He is content with the human possibility and content with its limitations. The way of human action of course does not satisfy him, but he does not believe there are any new virtues to be discovered; not by becoming better, he says, but by ordering and distributing his native goodness can man live...
Deer's demise was announced in a curt News box. The paper explained that it was forced to reduce editorial and advertising content because WPB had curtailed newsprint. Therefore, Deathless Deer must go. With her, in the issue of July 19, went Embarrassing Moments, Beauty Answers, Love Answers and the stockmarket column. The fact that the News had recently added a three-page classified ad section was not mentioned...