Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevada, having a very small frontage on the river, agreed to be content with 300,000 acre-feet or 2% of the Colorado's water per annum. But for five years Arizona and California have been deadlocked over how they shall share the remaining...
Mayors are memorable in proportion to the extent that they represent the popular conception of their cities. Should the Lord Mayor of London visit the U. S., none would be content if he failed to take with him some prancing coach horses, a mace, a port complexion and some coldstream guards. The mayor of Stamboul would have to produce a hookah out of his silk bloomers. By what tokens should the mayor of New York be known abroad? Tiaras, tabloids, and ticker tape? Chewing gum, checked suits, charged water...
...opium parleys at Shanghai (1909) and The Hague (1911). He declined the bishoprics of Washington, D. C., and New Jersey, to preserve for his world ministry the freedom of action he enjoys at Buffalo, N. Y. When his world ministry reached its peak this month, he was not content merely to preside over the hundreds of churchmen he had brought together, but went with them into their councils; explained, directed, adjusted and dictated daily despatches on their progress to the New York Herald Tribune...
...Manhattan, pasty-faced children are more usually content to cry and squabble over tootsie rolls. Not, however, the' brawny sons of Albert Devormer, famed catcher for the New York Giants. They, Earl, 8, and Oral, 9, are accustomed to gather about them their small and noisy cronies, to snarl about who has "next licks" in the middle of St. Nicholas Avenue. Usually, because they wear their father's prestige as well as his old mitts, their snarls are effective. Last week, when Policeman Harry Gallagher told them to stop playing, their snarls ceased to be effective. Hence Devormer...
...visitors have had the privilege of entering his cheery reception room, with its large windows, its creamy-tinted walls, etchings, photographs. Journalist Betty Ross made herself com fortable there; found it "a pleasure to listen to the fine flow of phrase, apart from the depth of their content, as they fall from the lips of the Chief Rabbi. His diction is graceful, his voice pleasant as it starts in moderate tones and becomes deeper and more intense as his words gather in force. You are surprised that his are not the precise, clipped accents of the Englishman...