Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Company to the Cleveland and Manhattan banking and brokerage firm of Otis & Co., founded by Charles A. ("Tot") Otis, also editor of Finance and Industry. That was not surprising. But that he should have sold for $3,000,000 less than was offered was. Mr. Foster, rich and content, was actuated solely by the desire to have the Company's stock sold to his employes and the public at a reasonable price...
...instance, in the election of a professor, 'the question is discussed as to whether he is really the strongest man that can be obtained from any point in America or Europe; for President Lowell, believing that Harvard must sustain its primacy, is never content with any teachers less than the very best, and is insistent on waiting several years rather than load the staff for a generation with good but not exceptional men. He has thus brought department after department up to the highest standard, as has been shown in the report of the President of Miami College...
Said Mr. Damrosch: "In the last 25 years, Negroes have made great strides in the cultivation of civilized or European music; among these, Roland Hayes is one of the most eminent, because he has really penetrated into the emotional and spiritual content of the music of our great masters...
...Babylon, N. Y., experimenters announced the development of a new illuminating gas. The raw material used: crude oil or refinery residuum. The product: a hydrogen and carbon combination containing no carbon monoxide because manufactured at low temperatures. The product's qualities : non-asphyxiating because void of carbon monoxide ; content of 1,600 British thermal (heat) units as against 525 to 585 units in most illuminating gases. From 7 gal. of refinery residuum are produced 1,000 cu. ft. of the new gas and a by-product of 1½ gal. of gasoline high in ethylene content...
...with Mr. Wilson, J. H. Wright '27 is as admirable as Crichton and a lot nimbler C. S. Gross '27 would be a Grade-A prima donna in any college production, and but for the presence of the boy-friend Wilson, would lead this review; instead he is generously content to complement the other's piquancy with a substantial loveliness of his own, and to pile up the Harvard score by taking second place, or four points. And of the four leading squaws, not the least is A. M. Carrillo '26, who is doing yeo-man (F) duty in lobby...