Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pillowcases, where tobacco is fed into billions of cigaret papers, where skyscrapers in Winston-Salem and Greensboro grow fast. Virginia retains much of its old aristocracy. Industry progresses along with female academies. South Carolina seems to have become the "valley." Charleston, which many times defied the nation, is now content with a less vigorous aristocracy. But the real change in South Carolina has come back of the tidewater where famed Ben Tillman led a revolt of the agrarians and the "poor whites" 30 years ago. They seized both the political and industrial reins of the state. These "new" South Carolinians...
...good five cent cigar, as F. P. A. would say) is more of Mr. Jolson's Mammy songs sung by Mr. Jolson and less turgid mourning. Therefore when he bids good-bye to the ubiquitous Shuberts and joins forces with Mr. Michael Arlen Woods, who used to be content with bedroom comedies but who now seems to feel the urge to better things, he is doing no great service for anybody--including himself...
...CRIMSON content for the best essays on the University's eating problem closed at 8 o'clock last right. Undergraduate interest in the dietetic dilemma gave rise to a considerable sheaf of manuscripts. It is expected that several practicable plans will emerge from the assortment of ideas...
...last named difficulty hinges on the question of university economics. It there were money enough in becoming a tutor to promise a man a decent existence, many more would be content to consider this a life work. The second handicap to success could be overcome, to some extent, by the development of the remedy suggested for the third, provided, of course, the cost system of departmentalized education be viewed with the necessary grain of salt. The first can only be eradicated by closer contact between English and American tutors. Unless these men here learn the subtle refinements of what must...
...except in giving us mental satisfaction. Progress in the individual life is the achievement of mental satisfaction. Without the knowledge that there is a divine power and without the inspiration that this knowledge gives us, we could not enjoy the work that we have in the world and be content...