Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Profound believers in Santa Claus may possibly attribute Bonar Law's surprising generosity to the approach of Christmas. His real reasons, however, are certainly not altruistic. First of all the offer is accompanied by the hitch that France content herself with a reparation of only fifteen to twenty billion marks, a decided fall from per present demand. England is tired watching the mark coast downhill; she wants to establish trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey...
...Edison has expressed in no uncertain terms his opinion of the college man in overalls; any ward "boss" will be equally frank abut the college man in politics, and both are in large measure justifies. The men with A and B minds who are content to slide comfortably through college with a "gentleman's mark", C Taking interest in their activities their athletics and nothing else, are the same men who will be equally content twenty years from now to slouch comfortably at roller-top desks behind six-inch cigars...
...with that triumph, hockey was forced to be content until now. University teams continued winning with great regularity, but the games, always in a non-Harvard rink, came to be regarded more as a spectacle than as a college activity to be supported. There was no cheering section and the seats in the Arena or at the old Ice-Pavilion were usually filled for the most part by individuals who came to watch with equal interest the professional fancy skater, the University hockey team play the Pere Marquettes and to whistle when the band played "Yoo-hoo" between periods...
...content with this, the Goddess of Chance has been to work elsewhere at Harvard. The numbering of the seats in Sanders is another result of her diabolical ingenuity. In two sections the numbers in the rows run as follows...
...inevitable introduction of any distinguished visitor to this country, there is about such a man as Clemenceau something which no mere description of "beetling eyebrows" can give. To a few it is granted to see and hear him and they may find it for themselves; the rest must be content with accounts of speeches and ineffectual summaries of the message which an old and fiery statesman has brought with him to this country...