Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing, no matter how expert. He wanted proteges who, like himself, would be willing to devote a lifetime to church and choral music. In 1926, encouraged by Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, he started the Westminster Choir School...
...Studebaker got a Columbia M.A. and his superintendency in 1920. Thin, wiry, bespectacled, he makes his subordinates enjoy being slave-driven. Many a U. S. school has copied his system of paying teachers' salaries on the basis of individual ability, rather than for the job held. Not content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left...
...Wherewith, he fell upon his children land demolished all save a few, who fled back into the sea, content with their portion of it forevermore...
Harvard won't have to be content with the usual American brand of football next fall if Coach Eddie Casey has anything to say about...
Taking many of his cues from his predecessors in the field Mr. Edmonds does not blaze any remarkably new trail, and sometimes seems content merely, to retrace the stops of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. A story such as the "Death of Red, Peril," a tale of racing caterpillars, would indeed be famous, had Mark Twain never written his "Jumping Frog...