Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content with overworking this time-worn device, the authors go on to pack their scenes with soul-tearing and ear-splitting melodrama which at times verges on farce. Indeed it seemed to us that this play should not have been chosen, especially for the limited scope of a stock company...
...other nations to sign the Lodge Treaty with these articles attached would be virtually equivalent to asking them to acknowledge that the United States is a specially privileged nation. It would require every country joining the Lodge Court to acknowledge formally the Monroe Doctrine. Most nations are content to accept the Monroe Doctrine in practice, but many would object violently to initial it as a sign of their formal approval. Other nations would object similarly to "O. K.'ing" our immigration policy, whatever it may finally turn out to be. And some would be almost certain to insist that...
Dates in the past most Congressmen are content to leave to historians, but they insist in having their say concerning future dates. A controversy came to a head over a date which the House...
...creative genius and the attitude of constructive living are being smothered in our present grammer schools because, we are told with splendid intuition, of logically arranged and logically presented content. What those phrases mean the adherents of them do not say it is enough that they have been given to the world. The storm-center of the educational havoc has been found...
...upon by cooks prejudiced in favor of a certain diet. It is to their credit that, despite their personal views, while refraining from service of the devilled crabs of Bolshevism, they have not openly urged the watered gruel of internationalism on their clientele. In any event, the Chicago imitation, content with being an undramatic second, will put Williamstown on its mettle to disseminate knowledge of political conditions rather than to advance causes...