Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While your magazine or newsmagazine as you call it serves its purpose, I am content to let my subscription run out. The trouble with TIME, as I see it, is that it is too brief. You do not have space to cover thoroughly your subjects. Hence please cancel my subscription...
...longer, it can clearly be seen, will men be content with the sober greys and browns and blacks of common use. No longer will the proud possessor of a "well turned calf" hide it in flapping cylinders, or at best set it forth to little advantage under plus fours. It is only a question of time, and of the advent of a man of spirit, before the black and white of evening dress gives way to silken hose and satin knee-breeches, vests of gorgeous brocade and cloaks of rainbow colors...
...three plays to be given to night in the Agassiz theatre by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies, "Matches", "An Idyll of the Shops", and "Hunger", are varied in content; and all are in one way or another interesting. The first, by Liebovitz, has a profoundly human theme, the helpless idealism of an older generation confronting the callow indifference of the younger, a father pleading for loyalties which mean nothing to his children. The conflict is an old one, but it acquires from its Jewish setting a certain concentration as well as dignity and pathos, the rift between father...
That there were goodies" even in those early days is assumed from the fact that the Corporation "concluded that Old Mary be yet connived at to be in the College, with a charge to take heed to do her work undertaken and to give content to the college and students...
...held one foot; the other was wedged in the engine pilot board. If the engine backed away, he would be ripped as men rip legs off bullfrogs. If the car rolled towards him, he would be grated over the bars of the cowcatcher. So he sprawled there, content with the priest's ministrations, hopeful that the rescuing railroad men who were jacking the car up and away from him would be dexterous. They did free him. His legs were unbroken, only badly bruised...