Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mother Advocate has indeed, changed very slightly. She was always a little absent minded and impractical and she still clings to her absurd habit of writing verse. The Gentleman, on the other hand, has been content to forget the romantic tendencies of his youth and to plunge into the whirl of business, with the result that he has now a mansion, a gold watch fob, and a bank account of his own. But he has also something more valuable a reputation that none can respect and honor more than Mother Advocate. --Harvard Advocate...
...lengths to which three New York chorus girls have gone in seeking knowledge should cause the average student to hide his face in shame. Not content to trust one University or to consult one authority, these ambitious ladies sent a letter beginning "How can I help myself to a better and more cultured mind?" to the heads of Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, New York University, and Harvard. The response they got must have staggered them...
...game began auspiciously for the Academy, their first two batters being brought home by a sacrifice fly and a single after getting on base by means of being hit by a pitched ball and by another single. Not content with the early lead they scored a run the next inning, two more in the third and three in the fourth by the aid of a terrific three-base drive by Wortham which cleared the bases. The only other run came in the sixth when Walber, after hitting safely, reached home after two sacrifice hits by his team-mates...
Accused of blasphemy, the Editors apologized. Not content with that, the organ of the Knights of Columbus, Columbia, is now attacking the authorities of Harvard University because the editors have not been disciplined...
Other authors should regard the fate of Mr. Wells with trepidation. Recently writers have become content with pages that resemble Democratic campaign speeches with all the references to Wall Street expurgated. The old masters never relinquished their ascendancy in the reader's mind by such degradations of language. They found words to express even the complex internal phenomena that cause the modern writers such difficulty. But with the other kinds of freedom which are by-products of democracy, comes the liberty to fill in the spaces for oneself. Apparently, authors trust in the reader's imagination to bridge the gaps...