Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a list, compiled by the New York World, of current laws proposed in state legislatures, the republic is being safeguarded from every possible angle; adopting the methods of modern medicine, the eager solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit...
...Haven, Conn., February 9.--A policy almost 50 years old was abandoned tonight by the Yale News, when the staff of editors who assumed control today announced that the News for this year at least, will not cry out for campus reforms, but will content itself with making changes in the paper which will make it of more service to the students...
...content with his wandering Leys is now looking toward India. He has travelled enough by sea, he says, and is looking for a long land trek. In 1928 he hopes to go inland through India, and come out through China
Some time perhaps the minds of the mighty will discover that exact division between spirit and truth. Until then one must continue content with the news-paper...
Nassau citizens talked of giving Mr. Havemeyer a medal, but not because Nassau harbor is "shark-infested" as newspapers said. Medal or no, Mr. Havemeyer, who denied he was a hero, was content. He had had "one last swim." Only at night do sharks frequent Nassau harbor. And when they do come in from the ocean, they are sand sharks; scavengers, not killers. On moonlight nights they may be seen and heard, huge but probably harmless, lurking and feeding near the piles of the town slaughterhouse. Once there was a monster that Nassau called "The Harbor Master." At the buoy...