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Word: contently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cabinet. At Warsaw it was announced that former Premier Count Skzrynski had refused at the last moment to become Foreign Minister in the new Bartel Cabinet (TIME, May 24), in which Marshall Pilsudski has been content to hold merely the War Ministry though actually the virtual dictator of Poland. The Cabinet, as finally announced last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Pilsudski Interviewed | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...often told. In this case the home-town doctor has hypnotized her into believing she cannot sing ?after a throat operation. He of course wanted to marry her. In the closing moments of the play she recovers both voice and balance, bursts into song, and everybody is content. Dorothy Francis, once of the Chicago Opera Company, favors with the unusual combination of an actress and a voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...this time his own, when he tossed the discus 151 feet 3 3-8 inches. Gerkin and Hoffman finished close behind him in the platter sailing even. In the pole vault Barnes, Olympic and Association champion, was the cynosure of all eyes in the Stadium but he was content to qualify along with four others at the 12 foot mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coast Stars Scintillate as 50th Intercollegiate Meet Opens | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

...have to run their cycle until they break. But even if we suspect ourselves to be the victims of a process we cannot control, it is dangerous to admit it, and to surrender to it is simply to set ahead the date of our debacle. We must not rest content with a coward's refuge in unrelated specialisms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT FRANK OF WISCONSIN--WRITES OF THE REVOLT AGAINST EDUCATION, SAYING LATTER SUFFERS FROM BEING OVERLOADED | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

...cows could fly, Chicagoans would rejoice. Bovines could then be driven from the plains of Texas to the vast abattoirs of the Windy City in coveys, flocks, flights. If airplanes ever get big enough, even this may come to pass. . For the present, Chicagoans and Texans alike are content to rejoice that their lette. 3 back and forth about cows, and about oil, cotton, shipping and mail-order goods, are in transit a whole business day less than they used to be. Last week the National Air Transport Inc. inaugurated daily service with a fleet of airmail trucks between Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Midlands Man | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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