Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Permit me, if you will, a founder subscriber to TIME, to offer my protest against the content of your article entitled "Recovery-NRActive" under the division of National Affairs on p. 9 of your issue...
...father of three children, a mixer, member of many lodges, organizer of Dearborn's fire department and traffic system, once the town's president-chief of police (dual office), fond of distributing nickels and dimes to children, generally known as "Bill'' or "Uncle Bill," who, content with life, has said he would not change places with Henry. Business: Henry: an unsuccessful inventor at 40, owner and operator of the largest automobile business in the U. S. at 60. William: opened "William Ford Tractor Sales" when Henry began manufacturing tractors, prospered selling tractors and farm implements...
...capital. Many of them belong to the Frankfurter coterie studied under him at the Law School and still keep in regular touch with him. The one piece of work to which Frankfurter's hand was directly applied is the highly controversial Securities Law. But even in that he was content to sketch
Scientist Compton and his colleagues are content that the facts they are amassing about "nature's laws" serve as a key to this world and possibly the next. In deed many persons believe that science, complete in itself, has effectively displaced God. At such thinkers last fortnight was directed a thoroughgoing flaying by Scientist Compton's superior at the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also a clergyman's son. Accepting Science's true achievements, he nevertheless damned it for proffering ''green facts" and "raw empiricism'' as solutions...
...other Hammett stories, the characters in The Thin Man have lives of their own, are not the traditional puppets with which a tired school of reading and writing has been content. They give the impression of three-dimensional figures whose background takes in far more than the few pages of their story; they act and talk unbookishly, with the hard, queer inconsequence of real life...