Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor, stated that France could, if she wished, destroy London and almost every center of industrial population in England. The usually conservative Viscount Grey in a debate in the House of Lords said that unless a sense of security could be attained in Europe, England could not possibly rest content with her present inability to defend herself against attacks in the air. The entire British press is discussing the problem and urging an increased air program. Even A. G. Gardiner, editor of the liberal Manchester Guardian, criticizes France for building up an air force superior to the combined air forces...
...idealism and art, the musicians-the actual workers-will divide among themselves the deficit. They will no longer permit the rich and aloof to lose money on orchestras. The fiddlers and trombonists themselves will take over this exalted function as their just and well-earned due. Will they be content to remain wage-slaves at union rates? Not they. They will divide the box office receipts among themselves, and the fact that such a division will make mighty small wages for them will merely in- crease their elation. Beneath this surface of madness, as the critic of The New York...
...page advertisements of the Saturday Evening Post stated that the Post had never been sold with " premiums " of books or other merchandise, and that it has never made price-cutting " clubbing" offers. This is a challenge to every publisher to sell his periodical solely on the basis of editorial content. It is a challenge few can meet...
Because of the cold weather and the ice on the river the crews from both Newell and Weld boat houses have had to be content with rowing inside for the last two days. Today they will probably go out again, and tomorrow the first informal race of the season will be held in the Charles Basin between the six Freshman eights. The four crews of autumn crew material, the experienced football material, and the inexperienced football material will be the contestants over a one-mile course. The principal object of the race is to help Coach Bert Haines in grading...
...Significance. It is a dark world that Mr. Train sees. He is not content with regarding the age as one of irreverence in the very young or stagnation in the very old. He grants freely that the young are irreverent and the old are stagnant. But he goes further. He sees this as an age of decadance, of sham, of sensuality, of materialism...