Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner was over, but during the course of that dinner Mr. Loomis took his hip flask?a beautiful silver hip flask? out of his pocket and poured out some of that alcoholic stuff. I have had enough experience in the chemical laboratory to know that it had a heavy content of alcohol. He poured that in the glass and then he poured in some water?it was too strong to take raw?and he drank that and a lot of similar operations went on around the table...
...brac Christianity." When Maupassant, mewed in his asylum, waited for death, "he became a mere machine, and perhaps the only pleasure he experienced was the hallucination of bands of black butterflies that seemed to sweep across his room." Oscar Wilde "was a born newspaper man." Critic Huneker was never content merely to criticize a man's works? he discussed the man himself, gossiped, told tales out of school...
Scientists are not usually interested in philosophy or religion. Professional men, they are apt to find their profession exclusively engrossing. But Biologist John Scott Haldane, of Oxford University, is not content to breathe his last in the special atmosphere of his laboratory. He has attained a comprehensive view of life, reached "matured conclusions." The University of Glasgow invited him to lecture. He did, and this book, ambitious, anti-popular, significant, is the result. In it Biologist Haldane attempts to "bring consistency into the inheritance which has come to me individually in science, philosophy, and religion...
...player is able, he reaches in the air and bats it to one of his backs, but usually he must be content with getting it down at his feet and commencing a dribble. The defense against an opposing team rushing down the field with a foot dribble is usually to dive for and fall on the ball, and take the kicks intended for it. Touchdowns and goals are scored substantially as in the American game...
...Tuesday morning the suspicion that there might be a panic had turned to the apprehension that there was a panic. With the market failing to show even the usual closing rally, it appeared that Messrs. Lamont, Mitchell and their associates had been content to witness a liquidation that might technically be termed orderly but was certainly extremely depressing...