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Word: contentedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly any story appearing in the Advocate's pages might be criticized, but there is no reason why this cannot be done intelligently; no reason why we should not be told wherein and in what way the author is at fault. Mr. Halberstam makes the attempt in his discussion (sic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARE'S REPLY | 3/24/1953 | See Source »

But no amount of apology or police diligence could undo the damage, since the bomb could not have served Soviet leaders better if they had touched it off themselves. It would have been normal for the Kremlin to accept Israel's apologies: in 1927, for example, when a White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Diplomatic Explosion | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Neither Fred C. Sawyer '56 nor Robert C. Richardson '56 would admit how long they had been perfecting their new method for whipping cyclists into shape. But their reasoning seems to run that undesirable hills would not have to be climbed if the trainee contented himself with spinning his bicycle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pair Ponders Pond | 2/21/1953 | See Source »

In other areas, the President's status quo is in arrears of even his party's platform, which was supposedly written by men more conservative than he. Even the famed "bushel of cels" pledged federal action toward the abolition of lynching. But the President contented himself with appeals to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The President at Home | 2/5/1953 | See Source »

We Yale Men returned from Harvard last weekend wrapped in the shining garb of victory, but besmeared by Crimson mud-not mud from the football field (though we had that too), but mud slung by the ill-informed, ill-meaning Harvard CRIMSON. So we had a better football team this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BESMIRCHED | 11/29/1952 | See Source »

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