Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the last two years Formosans have grown more contented. Nationalist authorities have done a good job of economic reconstruction. Formosa's overall production this year will be up to 75% of what it was in good prewar years. Formosan tenant farmers, who under the Japanese paid as much...
Map & Pointer. So far television has found no way to compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a...
Craig climbed up the ladder of routine peacetime duty from Haiti to China, acquired the reputation of a steady, thoroughly professional soldier. His first wife was an invalid for a dozen years; during those years, Craig spent all his spare time at her bedside. He rarely appeared at officers'...
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House Beautiful. In Oklahoma City, Police Chief L. J. Hilbert hoped that his prisoners would "be more contented" as soon as he got that blinding red paint off the walls of the jail, replaced it with some creamy whites, restful greens and pastel blues.