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Word: contentedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfectly well supplied with grey matter. The trouble lies in the fact that they have in no way been intellectually stimulated by what Harvard has to offer in the classroom, and, since most of them do not intend to go into scholarly careers, they were and are quite content to get passing grades by cramming with or without professional help...

Author: By Shane E. Riorden, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

...Brady had refined her techniques to the point of excellence, while keeping her pictures childishly simple In content. The combination was as appetizing as pie à la mode. With her first Paris show (TIME, May 13, 1946), O'Brady was hailed by one critic as "the only great painter of the New World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: American in Paris | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Roach, Lowell House night janitor, approaches the matter from a philosophical sandpoint. "I'm always pretty much content whatever I do. I like night work, and it's the same old routine. Nothing much ever seems to happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wee Hours Suit Cambridge Night Workers; Janitors, Cabbies, Nurses Wouldn't Switch | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

Such pictures made Koerner the find of the year. There were less successful paintings in his show, some nasty in color, some confused in content. Except for one oil, The Beach, Koerner had excluded nature almost entirely. "I'm a city man," says Koerner. "I really love to ride the subway. To me it's like going to the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wasteland | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...three years in Amityville, Long Island. For a time Britten conducted an amateur orchestra in another Long Island town, just for the fun of it. The amateurs got so they could play a Mozart symphony creditably, then began thinking about a professional concert. Britten thought that amateurs should be content to stay amateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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