Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole University who desired to have Senator Johnson elected President of the United States we should be highly pleased for it is from such beginnings that all great movements grow and ten men enthusiastically working to advance a cause can accomplish more than six thousand men who are content to give a movement their passing attentions. Happily there are already on the lists of membership of the Hiram W. Johnson for President Club more than a hundred names of Harvard University men than whom there are no more devoted men dedicated to the advancement of any cause...
...buyer of a dinosaur egg, unless the buyer be a Museum, seems in worse case even than the collector of old books--or certain old books. There are of course old books which have in their content more or less value for the intellect. And there are old books which fell like lead upon their ago and generation and which by their bindings and beautiful print and wooden illustrations appeal only to the eye. But an object d'art practically the only value of which lies in its use as a test of human muscle must fall in the lowest...
...editorial office, they were forced at times to pander to the tastes of readers who demanded undisturbing fiction, in their newest venture with a publisher like Knopf behind them they need serve neither fiction nor soothing copy of any kind, but may scratch and sting to their heart's content...
Throughout the last period the teams fought it out up and down the rink to no purpose. For the most part the Canadians were content to let one or two of their players start down the rink, but outside of these efforts they played a defensive game. At one time the Crimson seemed in a fair way to break the shut out, when Beals penetrated and passed over to Hodder who stood waiting not more than three feet from the net. As soon as he received the puck however a Canadian player blocked his stick so that Morris was able...
Washington, for many months only a prospective factor in American business, now occupies the center of the industrial and commercial stage and practically monopolizes the spotlight. If the opening legislative session will be content to follow the President's remarkable message to Congress during this Winter, business men all over the country will look back upon its work with a satisfaction utterly without record in American history...