Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University language placement tests are not indicative of the content of introductory foreign language courses, Edward J. Geary, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday. Students would do better on exams reflecting the reading speed and language creativity stressed in University courses, Geary said...
...meet," said Shotputter Gary Gubner, a New York University sophomore, "I might say hello-if he does. This is not a social event. It's a challenge." But World Record Holder O'Brien, his plane flight delayed by bad weather, showed up late, and Gubner had to content himself with dueling a ghost. This seemed stimulus enough for Gubner, a robust 260 lbs. at 19. He tossed the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 10¼ in., shattered O'Brien's mark...
Some enthusiasts have been content to restore superannuated organs in movie theaters in return for the privilege of holding Sunday-morning rallies, where everybody gets a chance to noodle before the house opens for business. But the real zealots remove complete organs from doomed movie palaces (or theaters where they have been neglected, unplayed and unloved) and install them in, under, and behind their homes...
...prone to propound. But in his concern with all these, he has lost sight of his first responsibility, which is the education of the young. And the young are a troublesome, feisty lot. They will explore the frontiers of knowledge, and sometimes venture far beyond, instead of being content to be indoctrinated with the safe and tried. They will express new and revolutionary notions. They will be critical and altogether disrespectful of their older and so much wiser mentors...
...other college in the nation, slick-shooting Sophomore Bonham, 19, would be a sure first-stringer; at second-ranked Cincinnati (season record: 10-1), he is content at the moment to be the best substitute in college basketball. The reason: there were only two seniors on last year's power-packed Bearcat squad that ran up 22 straight victories and defeated top-ranked Ohio State, 70-65, for the N.C.A.A. championship. Massive (6 ft. 9 in., 235 Ibs.) Paul Hogue, a rugged rebounder, is back at center, no longer fouls out of important games. Lanky...