Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...development of General Motors, he took no part. He left the company with a block of stock which would soon have made him an exceedingly rich man. But David Buick seemed to have no affinity for money. He could not make it himself and he was not content to let abler business men make...
Dance of Death. "Beware the Socialists!" was the gist of a rousing campaign speech which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin exhaled into the sooty air of Manchester. As usual, Squire Baldwin, benign scion of an old iron-mongering family, seemed comfortably content with himself and the world...
...year ago, one of the outstanding publishers told me how you and Briton had come to him for advice before starting TIME. Not content with his general statement that it coul be done, he said that he had gone into detail as to how impossible such a venture would be. He then added, 'The only mistake in my estimate was that I had omitted their stroke of genius...
...once you have him. Here as nowhere else must Harvard congratulate her traditional rival; powers of selection such as this are scarcely to be found even in the judges of the Atlantic City beauty contest, who, one is lead to believe, yearly pick the "best looking" American. Not content with mere externals, however, Yale Seniors confidently proceed to confound the personnel workers of a nation by the closest determination of so-called personality traits...
Although as announced beforehand the Vagabond himself kept strict hibernation throughout the reading period and the ensuing examinations, a disciple has arisen to confound the teacher. Not content with a mere passive exposure to lectures, this King of Vagabonds took the examination given in a course allied to his field though he was neither known to the instructor nor enrolled with the absentee members attending at the meetings of the course immediately before and after holidays last fall...