Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does Achilles sulk thus in his tent? Is this how those who love their country conduct themselves when it is most in want of their help and support? Why, when constructive statesmanship is needed, do Mr. De Valera and his followers content themselves with standing by and babbling vague denunciations to whoever has time to listen? The Irish Free State has yet to be built still they would tear it down before it is even started. Constitutional opposition in a regularly organized parliament is one thing; loud invective and rebellious threats against a newly organized government not able to stand...
...results from two main causes: our ship owners insist on a large profit, and our operating costs are greater. For the first there seems to be no remedy until more of our owners are willing to take the four, or five, or six percent profit with which Europeans are content, instead of usually insisting upon the ten or fifteen percent which the same capital would bring in certain other businesses. As regards the second evil--high operating expenses--the usual proposal is to offset them by some form of ship subsidy. But experience testifies that a subsidy has never accomplished...
...latest volume of Professor Channing's History of the United States. The reviewer, from his point of vantage in the real world of affairs, has seen fit to criticize not only the book but the author as being under the influence of the "academic scholar" point of view. Not content with this rebuke he proceeds to the startling generality that Harvard intellectually is in the stagnant backwaters. "Some who have their doubts", says he, "as they look upon the fresh waters flowing by their college, doors, may remember that a professorship at Harvard is the academic kingdom of heaven...
Germany, like "The Varmint", will never allow its neighbors to become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they have, according to an Associated. Press dispatch, organized a canal corporation at Munich to construct a two thousand mile waterway by joining the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. The engineering details will tax the German imagination as much as the Allied Reparation Demands will tax their pocket books...
...Hall, which is now ready for use will not only give the members of the squad a chance to practice more often, but will enable some who could not otherwise give the time a chance to go out for the team. In former years the team had to be content with making two trips a week to the Bay State School of Musketry in Boston, and even with first-class material could not practice often enough to gain a high degree of accuracy...