Word: contention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delwood was content. "Three courses plus Government 98, Tutorial for Credit, that might be considered enough, but according to Rules Relating to College Studies, I am entitled to another course. Therefore, I shall take it. Right?" The cork wall had no opinion. "Culture, I must have culture, can't go through Harvard without culture--the arts, literature. First, the arts--Fine Arts 13." He turned back to the catalogue, page 150, and jotted down, FA 13, MWF at 12. "Fine, just fine...
...record of two wins, four defeats and a tie. This season things could well be worse, and they may never get better, for the idea of recruiting a solid tackle or slithering halfback is out of the question. But the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's new coach was content. "Believe me," said Otto Graham, "I couldn't have picked out a better spot if I had sat down and studied offers for two or three years...
This spring he built a second greenhouse to indulge his wife's horticultural hobby. He is content to live out his life in the nonbohemian tranquillity of his Hertfordshire home, with only an array inside of small Henry Moore statues and Irina Moore's fine collection of primitive sculpture to show that it is the place of an unconventional family. He also has the satisfaction of knowing that his own breakthrough has opened the way to public acceptance for a whole generation of radical young British sculptors, topped by such bright new talents as Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler...
Most College students, however, seem content to sip silently the sugar and honey of reassuring slogans, and as the nation's foreign and domestic problems grow in their complexity, a once thriving breed of rugged radicals is dying a lingering death. In the place of vigorous protest and proposals, a majority of today's undergraduates--calling themselves "moderate liberals"--voice either vague satisfaction or, at worst, a perplexed feeling that something, somewhere, is wrong...
...think that the content of your ethical views changed from what they had previously been because you became an atheist or agnostic...