Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content with this, Ullman and Howard, the two players who were under the probation ban until yesterday, and whose playing did much to bolster the team, won the game in the next inning. Ullman singled through short stop. Howard connected with the first ball that Bird offered for a phenomenal home run, right into the wind and rods beyond the center-fielder. It was a tremendous blow and sewed up the game for the 1927 nine...
...disillusionment is at best a philosophy of compromise. He goes back to teaching in the technical school, saying: "If I can only save some of them from waste, the waste I went through, the waste of spirit I see everywhere about me in our life today, I shall be content. I don't know that it can be done, that waste is not inherent, inevitable, in the process of living, but it is worth the effort...
...helps along their incomes. "Finally, some of the well-paid correspondents like the social life. They are 'wined and dined' as the expression goes, by the leading politicians. If they turned real investigating newspaper men their hosts wouldn't like it. "Thus, the correspondent is content to take the handouts; he is a very high-grade messenger. They no longer sit at the table with the heads of government in conference as they used to, when I was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." All this was vouchsafed to Philip Schuyler, of Editor and Publisher, who said...
...dirth of liberally educated college men. "The lack of education shown by most college graduates with whom I have come in contact is simply appalling," he told the reporter, when interviewed in his downtown office in New York City "I find that most American college men are perfectly content to do just enough work to get their degrees and go no further...
...with labored groans, and that thereafter the graduates who will mill out into the night shall wag their beards like the old man on the walls of Troy and say that this is the best show the Pudding ever gave, or not the best, depending on the individual sap-content...