Word: contentedness
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Mrs. Fosby, who takes in boarders up on Fenwick Street, reported her house pet missing last week. It was a black tabby cat with a white spot on its chest. Mrs. Fosby never overfed the animal ("so the poor thing would not be fat and unhappy in her old age...
Other factors in the life of contented students were good health and congenial playmates. Sorokin contends, "The absence of these two (loving family and playmates) cannot be compensated for by wealth . . . or any of the material values. If they are present, even the children of a poor family, living in...
"Somewhat Startling." "I must say," McDonough later observed, "that the tone of Mr. Truman's reply was somewhat startling." But Congressman McDonough contented himself with appending a few observations to the letter and quietly inserting the whole correspondence in the Congressional Record. There the matter would have rested, buried...
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...