Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President will cut the gold content of the dollar up to 50 per cent. This power will permit him to cooperate with other powers for the restoration of an international gold standard at a lower level. If no such agreement can be reached at the World Economic Conference, the President will proclaim a devaluation of the dollar to meet that of foreign currencies whose depreciation is hurting U. S. trade...
...course is supposed to be an introduction to Philosophy through the historical method, but in actuality falls far short of its mark. The lectures are either very poor in content and well delivered, or of mediocre calibre and delivered in such a way that only those in the front row can hear, and then indistinctly. The section meetings once a week vary with the instructor, and for the most part provide the only opportunity for enlightenment in the course...
...said that the "100% American" of yesterday "who had no modern theory of society" had been supplanted by a new sort of citizen best typified by "Mr. Franklin Roosevelt . . . and my friend Randolph Hearst." The oldtime American was content with the U. S. Constitution as "a charter of anarchism," but Mr. Hearst and Mr. Roosevelt "are both violently against the Constitution...
...also in common with most of Author Faulkner's fictions a property which his mannerisms have caused his admirers to under-emphasize: an exciting story, with emotional content fit for mass consumption, sharply imagined and compactly told. Director Hawks, always at his best when dealing with dangerous machinery, makes the voyages of the torpedo-launch the most exciting sequences. Good shot: the funeral, with candles on a bar and a matchbox for a coffin, of Wellington, Ronnie's fighting cockroach...
...wholly in sections, probably the best method in a subject of this kind. Obviously everything depends on the instructors, and for the most part they are among the best in the University. Their task is made difficult by the necessity of trying to satisfy both those men who are content with the broad outlines of the work and those who desire a more detailed discussion. It has been suggested that more honor sections be formed; and that they be organized after November hours. If this were done and if more Freshmen were admitted to the course, men concentrating in Economics...