Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination. The solution was the British one; soon it became obvious that the college must be broken up into smaller and more manageable units, that the internal structure of Harvard College should duplicate that of the bundle universities of England. Yale, more explicit, called these units colleges; Harvard was content to call them Houses. Having begun the work of education along the lines that a diverse modern civilization made necessary, Mr. Lowell retired, trusting that the course system would gradually give way, and become, as the lecture system, the efficient handmaid of men working, under tutors, in a wide...
...some of the deserving were not content with this simple pleasure, and demanded and got more. One such man made a trip at government expense to Boston, and, according to Brown, brought back a large supply of "hair tonic for the boys." Boston was too petty for the imaginative Mr. Brown; he went off for a pleasant little jaunt to Paris on government funds and almost succeeded in bringing back a Turkish dancer. In between times he made trips to Washington to take liquor to his uncle, the late Mr. Doak, Secretary of Labor, "who had heart disease...
...indicated by the pronunciation, the correct spelling of this crime is kidnapping, (to nab a kid) and not "kidnaping" (perhaps to grab a child by the nape of the neck). We feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...
...best and quickest road to good times. Once the people of this country have tasted the 'blood of inflation' they will want more, and soon we will have a desperate situation of uncontrolled inflation on our hands. The President's policy is definitely limited; he can not reduce the content of the dollar below fifty cents, nor does he so desire. No one denies that we dare not go back to the conditions of the last fifty years of capitalism, to the business policy of an agrarian age continued into a machine age. Therefore, we must discover new methods...
...Prohibition is the worst curse that was ever inflicted upon this country," continued this experienced mixer of drinks. "It had a degrading effect upon everyone. Take my case, for example; I was forced during the plague of prohibition to content myself with the mixing of soft drinks and the dishing out of ice cream. But I haven't forgotten how to mix a single drink, not a one. Off hand, I should say that the Martini and Bronx cocktail are about the most popular drinks thus far, but the majority of the drinking public, on the whole, are sampling...