Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though modest Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is content to be styled a Queen, her realm is an Empire in all but name - an Empire three times larger in area and almost as populous as the Empire of Japan...
There is something vastly amusing in the reflection that the Free Thinkers by their recent action put themselves on the same side of the fence as the Tennessee fundamentalists. Their president and Dr. John Roach Straton are not so much on opposite poles as their labels imply. Neither is content to live and let live. Both lake the same position in attempting to exploit justice to carry out their convictions...
...didactic style of writing has gone; people are no longer content to read a full column editorial and then wonder what it is all about. The reading public today wants brevity, variety and versatility, and they want facts...
...loaded his automobile last week with apples and hay. He started. A deer bolted from the woods, gave chase. Retarded by snow Mr. Kefter could not distance the beast, was chased for five miles. At last he threw out five apples and an armful of hay. The deer stopped, content...
...have done the same when Richmond fell. Brave men rarely question another's courage, particularly at such a moment as the downcrash of an empire. I have known many men of moral and physical courage-but none more personally chivalrous and brave than the now exiled Kaiser." Not content with this panegyric of Wilhelm II, Mr. Bigelow paused to eulogize the onetime Kaiser's grandsire, Wilhelm I: "He was a grand old monarch, that first Emperor William-Der Greise Kaiser as his people fondly called him. Nor can I recall without emotion how myself and other boys...