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Word: contented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolling fortress in which once rode Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. To Philadelphia's scrap collection Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, wealthy widow of the Morgan partner, gave a high-grade steel fence that ringed the Stotesbury Whitemarsh Hall estate. Height of the fence: eight feet. Length: nearly two miles. Content: enough steel for some 18,000 machine guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 14, 1942 | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...content with the aforementioned two chestnuts, "Mal" Holmes has thrown in a Sinfonia by Rosetti, and Bach's suite for orchestra in C Major. Rosetti, like Sweelinck and Buxtchude, had the bad luck of living and writing under the shadow of a greater contemporary, in his case, Mozart. His biography, where it is known at all, is full of the kind of unbelievable poverty and misery that dogged Mozart, and almost all of the 18th century German composers. In his day, every petty German prince had his court musicians and his "Kapellmeister" who trained the singers, trained and conducted...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/10/1942 | See Source »

...Clyde K. B. Kluckholm, associate professor of Anthropology; Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics; F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature; Preston Roberts '43, and C. L. Barber '35 were all in substantial agreement on this point. According to the experts the Liberal Arts College must not be content to remain at the present status quo but must forge ahead. One of the methods discussed by which a non-technical education could be made more liberal was a plan based on that of the University of Chicago, which forces a general education during the first two years, an expanded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Literature Forum Sees Specializing in Later College Years | 12/9/1942 | See Source »

...activities, including the then-famed course, English 47, abolished. Baker, exiled by the Brahmin purists, found a more appreciative reception at New Haven, settled there, and brought the Yale drama school to the ranking spot in college theatrical circles it now holds. After the hegira the Corporation was content to allow Harvard to lag behind every leading college in the land, completely devoid of University support of play writing and play producing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Interlude | 12/9/1942 | See Source »

...Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Instructors shall provide cumulative grades based upon suitable tests of the quality of the students' work for such students ordered to active duty. The tests (hour examinations, daily or weekly quizzes or exercises, these, themes, or written reports) shall cover the content of the course to the time of the students' withdrawal from college and include some test given in December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plan Lets Pre-Inductees Obtain Semester Credit Without Finals | 12/4/1942 | See Source »

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