Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary citizen is content to refute the pacifist by the Johnsonian argument of knocking him down, but all intelligent men, including, tentatively, college men, must admit that much more important problems of psychological morality lie back of the question, "To fight or not to fight?" Dr. Richards will speak tonight on some of these problems as they must be met by Christians...
...request, to treat her with Mandragola, a root whose properties, the noble leech insists, will permit the aged merchant to realize his ambition, at least to all appearances. Thus the old man soon rejoices in the promise of an heir, and the young couple is also very well content...
...right door. Traffic in New York puzzles him. He now gets on a street car with an address in his hand and, as he says, "counts". As long as he doesn't cross a bridge, he knows that he isn't too far lost, and is content. He thinks the best prose from the U. S. recently is Don Marquis' great play, The Dark Hours...
Ordinary air is composed of four-fifths nitrogen and one-fifth oxygen and smaller amounts of other gases such as carbon dioxide. The oxygen content of air is the only part valuable to man in breathing. When men work in certain types of caissons, in diving suits or diving bells, they are subject to great air pressure. Under these circumstances, nitrogen goes into the tissues of the body. When the external pressure is released, as by coming out of a caisson or being raised to the surface of the water, the excess nitrogen in human tissues tends to form bubbles...
...company merits high praise. The portrayers of royalty--Miss Emmet, Miss La Gallienne, Miss Skipworth, and Mr. Owen--were no more impressed with their own importance than were the aristocrats whom they represented. Mr. Rathbone made a personality out of the tutor, where others would have been content to play him only in type. Mr. Hobbes, as Father Hyacinth, put all his lines and business across, and can be criticised only for doing it too thoroughly. The innumerable domestics supplied most of the burlesque and comic elements which should have been omitted...