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Harry Truman had contented himself with guarded silences and careful speeches during more than a month of clamor and vilification over the removal of General Douglas MacArthur.

From Time Magazine Archive

In wooden-wing planes the cautious Army had contented itself with fleets of Ward's little primary trainers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Added Les Lettres Fran�aises: "One could imagine that these painters had not even studied the original canvases but had contented themselves with examining reproductions."

From Time Magazine Archive

Fanny Montgomery had contented herself with the hand of a young man named Fosdick who had been summoned to town to organize a commercial club.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana

She seemed to have mixed some good poetry with the bad novels that had contented her in Melbourne.

From Tiny Luttrell by Hornung, Ernest William