Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direction of the ideal in the past few years. Laboratories, by the elimination of an unnecessary quantity of drawing work, have been made more beneficial, but they still tend to become mere lecture periods of double duration. There is in general a great deal of duplication in the content of the reading, the lectures, and the laboratory periods. All of these are overmuch concerned with terminology, classification, and the minutiae of fact. The course would be improved by leaving such rote work to be done outside of class, reserving the lectures and section meetings for consideration of more advanced points...
...axiomatic that I would expect the identical courtesy extended to others in this respect and will positively not be content until full data reaches...
Between U. S. throats and legal beer stands this definition in the first chapter of the Volstead Act. By a majority Congress can at will modify this sentence so as to eliminate the word "beer" and up the alcoholic content to 2.75% or more. If, how and when such modification is to occur continued to make much frothy news last week. Behind all the heady hopes and thirsty speculation lay the following sober facts...
...only to his legally changed name of "Shaw." An archeologist of the first rank, he is now a mechanic and "the associate of menials"; once a colonel, he is now, by choice, a private; with a reputation that could still be cashed in for much fine gold, he is content with his army pittance of 60¢ a day. This Royal Air Force mechanic, Aircraftsman Thomas Edward Shaw, known to the world as Col. T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, whose most intellectual duty at present is "tinkering with engines," has just finished a four-year spare-time job of translating...
...activity revived as soon as President von Hindenburg called into being the Fatherland's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles" (TIME, June 13). Cartoons for and against the Hohenzollerns are printed almost daily in German papers of all sorts. But among the monarchists there are indeed grave "disagreements." Most monarchists are content to wait for a sudden, national emergency, such as the death of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg. They would then push forward "as a stabilizing influence" a Hohenzollern? not as Kaiser but as "German Regent." In Bavaria, where monarchist heads are hottest, the populace already hail 63-year...