Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. Although Charles Cotton's translation of 1670 has been changed greatly in its subsequent editions, it has still remained unsatisfactory for modern use. With the publication of Mr. Ives' new work, there will at last be adequate and up-to-date interpretation of both the style and content of Montaigne...
...this chaos, Mr. Flexner evolves seven classifications for American universities, the last of which he dubs "athletic and social organizations." Some of the categories are little more than mere trades, almost devoid of intellectual content, while on the other hand some go to the very limit of intellectuality. The remedy he suggests is that the different colleges choose to do different things in their severally appropriate ways...
That college faculties and college students have in the past worked at cross purposes because the former have tended to emphasize the scholarly ideal to the exclusion of all else, and the latter have too often been content to pursue a more or less animal ideal to the detriment of their mental development; while the development of character has been left almost wholly to the student to pick up as best he might...
Last week chuckling Communists drained the Samovars of Moscow's lower depths in steaming content. Wide faces waxed into full-mooned laughter. Behind the relentless mask of the Third International, beaked sardonic visages relaxed in a sour smile, as the Pravda, famed Bolshevist sheetlet, brought them welcome tidings of nauseous conditions beyond the seas. A joke, a Gargantuan jest, had just been found to be on someone else...
...finals, lank James O. Anderson of Australia gazed bitterly but with a certain sardonic resignation at the balls that bounded past, around and over him; occasionally he waved his racket at one, but for the most part he was content to let his opponent, Vincent Richards, have his way with them. In the first two sets, it is true, he had tried more vigorously, even winning the second. But his own apathy and the brilliance of Richards conspired to give two love sets, the match, in Seabright Men's Singles, to the latter...