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Word: contentedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rupert Emerson, Chairman of the Government Department, warned that no matter how contented this move might make the population, as long as there are militant communists in the country, they'll try to take over, and they play for keeps.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communism Not Issue in S.E. Asia, Holds Jean Mintz | 4/29/1952 | See Source »

To many of her girlhood friends, this kind of adulation and the unique achievements which have prompted it are added proof that the Roosevelts, man & wife, "betrayed their class" for the bauble of fame and the doubtful company of reporters, social workers and ward heelers. "Oh," says Mrs. Roosevelt with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Mrs. Kluckhohn said that the role of women in society is a major topic of contemporary interest, and that people wonder whether they are happy or contented. Most writers, she said, think they are neither.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kluckhohn Says Women Unhappy In 'Conference of Future' Speech | 3/29/1952 | See Source »

In about 160 papers she is still Dorothy Dix, but in 20 others the column now appears under her maiden name, Muriel Nissen. The old-school, no-nonsense advice is the same mixture as before. Recently, "A.L." wrote: "My husband and I are both in our fifties ... get along very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear Dorothy Dix | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Biographer Maisie Ward was entitled to a contented sigh when she finished Gilbert Keith Chesterton nine years ago. It was (and is) the most thorough account ever written of that man-mountain of modern English letters. But Author Ward's book was hardly off the presses before she began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postscript on G. K. | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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