Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reader opens the latest issue of the Lampoon in his customary mood of funmaking, the content of the paper is harmlessness itself. If there be any who are not acquainted with the traditional undergraduate attitude, they may be shocked to find the Lampoon, far from grateful for the manna let fall by heaven in the lean weeks between Christmas and Saint Patrick's Day, snarling at the generous hand. The consequences of such misinterpretation would not, however, be great. The only possible tragedy resulting would be that of one who took seriously what is clearly humor...
...will probably be something infinitely old but in modern dress. Unfortunately the moralizing to which this problem is so often and so easily subjected is particularly ineffective. It is to be hoped that men in Mr. MacDonald's position and of his turn of mind will not forever be content with the mere discovery that the world is very much like the unfortunate but rather common individual who doesn't know what he wants and won't be happy till he gets...
Irishfolk were content because the new Governor General is of their blood and has already served them diplomatically and well. Britons were not less pleased, recalling Mr. McNeill's loyal service...
...George Washington. It is now the largest state in the Union, the seat of the Democratic National Convention (at Houston). Bunker's Monthly, however, is no passing boom sheet, no harp twanging the glories of yesteryear. It is substantial in size, pleasing in appearance, broad in editorial content. New Yorkers and Californians can read it with profit...
...early 19th centuries, the manufacture of cotton goods was a comparatively simple matter. Nearly every town of any importance had its red brick factory owned by a thrifty Yankee who combined the qualities of feudal lord, social mogul, town benefactor. His employees admired him, had simple wants, were content with frugal wages. Raw cotton from the slave states was cheap and plentiful. The New England mills had a virtual monopoly of U. S. textile manufactures. The thrifty Yankee prospered, passed his factory down from generation to generation. The Civil War upset many a factory, but that was only a passing...