Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate students. The chances of an immediate undertaking in this direction are unfortunately remote. Therefore as a temporary expedient, it would seem much more practical to set up, instead of two distinct graduate eating organizations, one large all-inclusive society. For the time being it would probably have to content itself with the basement of Andover Hall, but the success of the undertaking would mean a rapid expansion and additional dining halls. The matter of moment, however, is to get as much food for as many people possible, in as effort a time as possible...
Doctors were amazed to find that Mrs. Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...
Vittorio Mussolini, cinemogul son of Italy's dictator, voiced his fears that the decision of U. S. distributors to withhold their pictures from Italy would keep Italians from the movies. Then he added for his father's sake: "Personally and politically I am content that American films produced in that Hebrew Communist centre which is Hollywood, are not to enter Italy...
Sonja Henie was skating in Houston's new $2,500,000 Coliseum, so 3,000 delegates to the annual convention of the American Bankers Association had to be content last week with the old City Auditorium. There the nation's bankers cut many a fancy figure on the thin ice of their New Deal relations...
...truth about Harvard's amateur football status has finally been revealed, a truth more sordid than any which fancy could have projected. Not content with hiring professional players like any other normal college, she has resorted to illegal methods staggering because of their very insolence...