Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Economics Department includes some of the most brilliant, sound, and thorough economists in the country. Yet while their field is being disgraced in the public eye by the ungrounded, unsubstantial, pseudo-economics which characterizes the Roosevelt administration, the Harvard professors are content to remain sheltered in their scholastic asylum, and assume a completely detached...
...demonstration. Egotism, arrogance and ignorance are seldom displayed in the Senate of the United States. They require a measure of talent possessed only by the Senator from Louisiana. . . . Mr. President, it ill becomes a Member of this body to attempt to bulldoze his fellow Senators. . . . "I am perfectly content that General Johnson and the Senator from Louisiana may have their fight out in any form they choose. I think it would be rather in good taste ... if they should use the good old- fashioned way of settling personal controversies, rather than bringing them into the Senate. ... It is regrettable that...
...leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province to classify myself with the eleven faithful Apostles. I am content to leave that to the justice of history and to the judgment of God. ... I rejoice that never once have I sold Jesus Christ nor did I ever betray the brothers of Jesus Christ. Can you say as much, General Johnson?" Chiding his accuser for ''vomiting your venom...
Lehigh University, piling up 23 points, spectacularly defeated their opponents to finish in first place. Penn State, who had been pre-meet favorites, had to content themselves with second place, scoring 17 points, while Princeton and Yale finished third and fourth with 14 and 13 points...
More notable was a pronouncement from Southern, not because of its content but because any statement from President Fairfax Harrison is so rare as to be almost historic. A scholarly, aristocratic gentleman of 65, with a name that works magic throughout the South, Mr. Harrison divides his time between his country seat at Belvoir in Virginia's Fauquier County and the Washington headquarters of his road, writes learned treatises on Roman farm management under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer." Though he has lately given up reading daily newspapers as a waste of time, President Harrison last week unbent enough...