Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uttered. He said he had come to the people to ask for relief from the late Premier Bonar Law's pledge*, because "no Government with any sense of responsibility could continue to sit with its head in its hands watching the unequal struggle of our industry or content itself with palliatives." He then explained the effect of his protectionist policy, which is a discriminatory tariff upon imports in favor of the British overseas nations...
...Self content and self complacency show a lack of human nobility," said the Right Reverend Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, and Primate of Sweden in his sermon at Appleton Chapel yesterday morning...
...that the Alumni Bulletin has misunderstood and misrepresented the CRIMSON's point of view is perfectly natural. For the Bulletin represents an entirely different attitude toward university affairs. It is content to serve largely as a mere chronicle of events--an aim which is very estimable in itself but totally different from that which the CRIMSON believes to be the true end of university journalism...
...content with holding the world's speed record, Lieutenant A. J. Williams achieved the world's climb record in his famous racer- rising Iike a rocket to a height of 5,000 feet in one minute...
Nevertheless, investment is undoubtedly far more risky in a liberal than in a technical education. As long as this is so, the liberal schooling must ever remain a luxury for the privileged few, while the majority of men must be content with the knowledge of the technician. The very fact that a liberal education is possible to only a few should make those few all the more desirous of taking advantage of their unusual opportunities. For, where pearls are scarce, it is unthinkable that they should be cast before swine. It is the duty of the liberal college...