Word: contently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mirror to him. Satire and good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average editorial. The college humorous paper that is content to remain merely a cermic loses a golden opportunity...
...exhausting his allowed absences. Permitting five cuts in a course does not mean telling a student to cut five times but it usually works out that way. With the necessity for cutting three or five times removed, the really interested student might attend a course to his heart's content, perhaps not cutting once in a semester...
...mirror to him. Satire and good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average "editorial." The college humorous paper that is content to remain merely a "comic," loses a golden opportunity. Yale Alumni Weekly
...every theorist he likes to it the world to his theory in preference to fitting his theory to the world. His "Childish Americans" in the January Parper's" fits the American public to his particular belief that the national malady is childishness. And it is not conducive to national content to realize how easily he is able to do this...
...special significance is to be attached to this one of many recent consolidations in all branches of industry, it is that the Standard Oil Companies have of recent years taken an increasing interest in production of oil. Time was when Standard was content to let independents produce, provided Standard could refine all the oil used. But the development of independent producers into independent refiners and distributors has apparently caused Standard to extend its control of production...