Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bourgeois (Government) party. Twenty-four hours later the young Prince deemed it wise to reshuffle his Cabinet, give several posts to National Union Nazis. At the same time His Highness issued a whistling-in-the-dark assurance. "There is almost no Naziism in Liechtenstein," he said. "The population is content to live in a small independent state and wishes to continue the close union with Switzerland." Since 1924 Liechtenstein has been a member of the Swiss customs union, since 1921 has used Swiss currency, has Swiss-administered postal and telegraph systems...
...language. So the actual writing was done by Infeld. But it is not simply a ghostwritten job. Their friends, who did not know about the book for some time after it was actually under way, say that it is a "real project of collaboration." The scope, form and content of the book were agreed on and mapped out in careful detail...
...impertinent reporter wrote impertinent George Bernard Shaw: "How long do you think you are going to live?'' Shaw replied: "I cannot tell you the exact date of my death. . . . You must be content to know that as I am in my eighty-second year, my number is up, and the cremation furnace may make an end of me at any moment, to the great relief of many worthy persons...
...Psychology, youngest of the experimental sciences, has been content to model itself upon physics and biology and instead of challenging their tenets has felt that its own scientific status depended in large part upon the acceptance of the standard world view," says Murphy...
...criticism levelled at Professor Lake for "teaching a work with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content" is summed up in Gradgrind's "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else...