Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Medical Association published in its Journal last week an analysis of the nicotine content of certain specific brands of pipe, cigar and cigaret tobaccos...
...speaking of U. S. art students Painter Henri Matisse once said: 'They must be great artists, they must be geniuses, why cannot they content themselves with being painters. Then some day they might be good painters, perhaps...
Sirs: TIME seems to have been content to follow the New York World in omitting the Lehigh Valley from the list of railroads permitting smoking in dining cars. Fortunately, however, for the Lehigh Valley, the World's Bureau of Accuracy and Fair Play promptly corrected the omission. Will TIME do as much? More than a year ago, the Lehigh Valley announced on menu cards on the Black Diamond, the New Yorker and other trains that diners might smoke should they so desire. N. W. PRINGLE Passenger Traffic Manager Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. New York City Further evidence...
...bill passed will very largely carry out the ideas expressed by the President and that the measure will, in practically every one of its aspects, be the best that can be enacted in the interest alike of the producer and the consumer. And with that we shall be content...
...done to rout a herd of cows complacently grazing over the site of one of the few U.S. victories in the War of 1812. But as decorous conduct is expected of the Secretary of War, and as he was hundreds of miles from New Orleans, Mr. Good had to content himself with drafting a bill and forwarding it to the House Military Affairs Committee providing that the U. S. take over and maintain this famed battleground, empowering him to send somebody out to chase away bovine desecrators...