Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finance Minister then read from a separate sheet a statement of what the Blum Cabinet would ask the Chamber and Senate to do with the franc, namely reduce its gold content from that of 65½ milligrams of nine-tenths fineness to a value controlled between 49 and 43 milligrams by a French Treasury stabilization fund of 10,000,000,000 francs in conjunction with the U. S. Treasury and the British Exchequer. In plain English the tourist who has been getting about 15½ francs for his dollar in Paris will get about 21½ francs...
...would also like to congratulate publicly the undergraduate speakers, R. T. Fels, N. L. Cahners, and E. O. Miller for both the content of their speeches and the manner of delivery. It has seemed to many of us that no part in the entire three-day program added more to Harvard's future than the carefully worded thoughts of these gentlemen. They must have been satisfied by the rapt attention of the audience and the plaudits they received; but even so, what they said we may hope will live on to aid in the growth of Harvard in the future...
...enthusiasm, in American audiences. American audiences haven't pledged themselves, and don't intend to pledge themselves, to anything politically serious. So Mr. Kaufman declares over the interval of two jolly hours that wives are the only things that make the Washington merry-go-round go 'round. Not content with having put love in the White House along with a Mr. Wintergreen, he now suggests that we elect the first lady, and led her husband be President...
...world! Wrigley's has chosen the man they believe to be the foremost historian of our time, Professor Bruce Hopper, to present to you today's enactment of the world's news. Unlike most advertisers, Wrigley's has no control over the program to be presented, but is content to sit back, as you are doing now, and chew a stick of Wrigley's while listening to the news as Professor Hopper has prepared...
...early, being murdered in 1850 by a jealous husband named John Root. The colony's history thereafter paralleled that of most 19th century U. S. religious Utopias. Disease and crop failure due to unfamiliarity with the land killed off many. Next came a period of self-sufficiency and content, followed by dissatisfaction and dissolution. The colony's 10,857 communal acres were split...