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Word: contentions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is obviously a political content to many questions that the Faculty considers, but that should be secondary," he said. "We should go back to the period when issues were considered on their academic merits...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Rosovsky Takes Over as Dean of the Faculty | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...other voice, of course, belongs to Hanoi. As usual, it has kept its intentions to itself. Yet the moderate tempo with which it is infiltrating arms and men into South Viet Nam, and the content of its recent directives to its cadres, indicates that it has no plans for a major military offensive soon. Instead, according to veteran Hanoi watchers, the handful of aging Communists who rule North Viet Nam intend to use the next three or four years to secure their strongholds in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDOCHINA: The Fighting Finally Stops for the U.S. | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

When Duane Allman died I'd have been content for the band to break up, so I could hang on to the three albums I had and use them as a pedestal to put him on. But they decided to stay together because he'd have wanted it that way. With Eat a Peach, he might just as well have been alive; he was on all the live cuts, and the three studio pieces were hesitant and highly evocative of his style. I don't mind telling you I was worried...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: Song of the South | 8/21/1973 | See Source »

...Dancing is content merely to outline its characters' pasts, vainly attempting to maintain interest by keeping Reynolds' history a secret through much of the film. His gruff caricature of the efficient badman does not reveal a man who has thought out the world and rejected it, but merely a man who has not thought...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: The Man Who Loved Nobody | 8/14/1973 | See Source »

...years as an almost expressionist work. It had the blind eyeballs of old age and severe monochrome brown skin. These features turn out to be the work of later hands. On cleaning, the Magdalen's lively painted eyes, light skin and polychrome garments were restored. Thus its whole content has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Long After the Flood | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

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