Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from a tub, with little effort expended upon distinguishing the sweet from the sour. The man behind the book is more willing to learn than ever before, but the man behind the desk is often too busy to teach. The professor having absorbed facts throughout his comfortable career, is content to add to his achievements in the seclusion of a library stall. There he may dissect at his ease some trifling bit of antiquarianism to satisfy the cry of modern educationists for research, and more research! And so the instructor, who alone should be best fitted for presenting facts...
...sufficiently "practical" to equip 90 companies of machine gunners. In fine, the Council was too water-hearted to denounce Italy for treaty breaking, lest Signor Mussolini should huffily withdraw his Great Power from membership in the League. General Tanczos, representing unrepentant Hungary, last week, said: "We are so well content that there is really nothing...
Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, not content to cast 62-year-old eyes on the phenomena of eagles and buzzards (TIME, April 23), demanded the controls of the Fokker monoplane in which she will fly to India and back. Pilot Barnard hesitated, sniffed the gusty wind, complied. Upon landing, he admitted: "The Duchess did extremely well for a day like this...
...typifies much of the sturdy Republicanism, the rural conservatism, which mark upstate New York. If it is a question of noted sons, Minnesota's tiny Rochester may boast her famed surgeons, the brothers Mayo, but New York's Rochester answers with Cameraman George Eastman and is content. Good music and much education contribute to its civic culture; civic cleanliness is upheld by the barbers and laundrymen, who set aside one week of each year to ply their trade for the city's children, free of charge. In 1927, the barbers offered up 4,000 free haircuts...
...power is essential. Among its problems will be the analysis of the spectra of southern nebulae, the determination of the velocities of bright stars, the establishment of standard series of magnitudes, the investigations of the light changes of faint variable stars, and the general analysis of the structure and content of the two star clouds of Magellan...