Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing to this lack of bases. Great Britain, with many bases dotting the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean from Gibraltar to Hongkong, has been content with smaller ships of less fuel capacity. The two policies have naturally clashed in the attempts toward mutual agreement on fleet strength...
Said the Prosecutor to the prisoner, "Just explain your motives to your heart's content...
...matches on each of the ten days of the Kokugi-kan tournament. Outside the arena, thousands more bet on the matches, followed the results on score boards. Of the money spent for tickets, the performers got a trifling share. As stupid as they are immense, sumo performers are content with a maximum pay of $100 a month augmented only by gifts of swords, bottles of sake, new aprons from generous admirers. Four years ago, a sumo strike for better pay, shorter hours, cheaper seats, a mutual aid society, pensions, was a miserable failure...
...bitter prosecutor like Ferdinand Pecora, was obviously making no effort to send his witnesses to jail, had no belief that the men before him were villains, aimed at no more than to show that war trade and war finance are a danger to peace. Chairman Nye, too, was content with building up a ponderous record which might be used to prove that: 1) In time of foreign war the U. S. should not trade with or finance belligerents; 2) There should be a limitation on war profits; 3) Munitions-making should be under government control. Already, however, neutrality bills introduced...
...wood tested, processed by a New Jersey manufacturer, was red oak and maple impregnated thoroughly and uniformly in pressure tanks with ammonium salts which, when hot, release combustion-smothering gases. The treated wood is almost as easily tooled as ordinary wood, a little heavier because of the salt content, no different in appearance. It takes varnish well. The Board's testers created conflagration conditions in large chambers fired by gas nozzles, watched through windows. Under conditions that sent untreated walls and floors roaring up in flames, the treated wood did not burn at all. When exposed to intense heat...