Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Crimson has made is the most startling and creditable of the season. That, according to press writers, Coach Fisher was striving to build up a defense to hold the Yale scoring to a minimum while Coach Jones was debating whether to roll up an obliterating tally or content himself with a moderate victory for the sake of many substitutions, must make Cambridge hearts glow with ghoulish glee. Yale may content itself with out-playing the Crimson, but Harvard will have the long awaited satisfaction of a superb halt to Yale's victorious rampage of the last three years...
...Stadium resigns itself to cold and windswept emptiness. The tumult and the shouting die away. And Harvard is very proud and quite content...
...sickly young shoemaker of Odense, in Fünen, Denmark, married when he was 20 a woman still younger than himself and was very well content when she bore him a son. They called the baby Hans Christian, and all three lived together, with little to eat, in a room which was also the home of their fine black...
From the tombs of the great are gone the isolation of yesterday. The gentlemen of science have now usurped the avocation of Jerry Cruncher and his friends. Better it is for a man to die unknown, unpraised, than to risk perpetuity in a museum of cadavers. Modern research, ill content with probing the affairs of life, probes death. So this boy who once ruled Egypt must stand inspection before a maudlin world, while from far and near come novelty seekers aspiring to gaze for a moment at the death masque of the Pharaoh. Shavian and eternal, the child king suffers...
...Eastern foibles. One of the most fundamental traditions, that of the harem, the present king has modified after the Oxford manner. Possibly, the high cost of educating young princes abroad caused this scion of a prolific family to be so far converted to the doctrines of Malthus, as to content himself with one wife...