Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later, delegates to North Carolina's state convention were elected in North Carolina's 100 counties. Returns were confused but the Brown Derby was clearly defeated. Senator Simmons was content. He still commanded his state. "They considered me the leader in the South against Smith's candidacy," he said...
...rouge." Another more affable young guest, one Hergesell, squired a buxom blonde beauty, but left her a few moments to dance playfully with lovely wistful Lorie. Aged five, Lorie was the professor's favorite child who had been allowed to stay up for a bit of the party. Content that the child should be made so happy, the old history professor wandered off for his evening walk, wondering if his enduring tenderness for Lorie was an evil contradiction of his sound intellectual belief that nothing was eternal but the past, that is to say, death. Pondering on these things, wondering...
...ever thought of ambassadorship. From cub-reporter in St. Joseph, Mo., he rose rapidly to New York newspaperdom, managed and edited the Forum, and later The Atlantic Monthly?"report-ing and interpreting American civilization." In 1900, as co-founder of Doubleday, Page & Co., he entered into what he was content to consider the culmination of his career?launching a fleet of magazines, publishing books, and devoting much of his time to the advancement of education in the South...
Memorial Day, in a very earnest address, President Hibben of Princeton welcomed the students to the new $2,200,000 chapel whose doors he had just opened with a scriptural adjuration. "Beauty," he said to them, "is not an empty form. It has its content both of thought and feeling. It is an attribute of God himself . . . We believe that this chapel will fulfill another function than that of corporate worship, that it will prove to be for many a house of refuge in time of trouble and distress...
Other Harvard canes, especially Hrvd No. 12.029, have not only produced much greater yields in tonnage per caballeria (33 1-2 acres) than Cristalina cane, but have in addition greatly expected that variety in actual sugar content and purity of juice in the stalk...