Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ramey cares for the third largest house and the only one with a housemaster who began with the House Plan in 1932. By and large his 1380 charges go their own way, unresponsive to pressures and content to get out of Winthrop exactly what they...
...many still have little faith in the new devices and lament the disappearance of the chalk-line test. At a recent civic meeting, a New Orleans official gave a demonstration in the hope of inspiring interest and confidence in the Drunk-O-Meter, a type that measures the alcoholic content of the breath. Placing some 70 proof cough syrup at a handy distance, he prepared to give a before-and-after exhibition. Unfortunately, either he or the machine was smashed and the meeting ended in a general state of disorder...
...There is no 'question time' within Congress. As a result, discussion is forced out into the nation as a whole. Congressional committees, press conferences, television interviews, newspaper columnists-all acting within different sets of rules or without any rules at all-let loose to their hearts' content...
Brooklyn-born Torero Franklin, now 50 and scarred by repeated gorings, has hung up his matador's suit, but he is still deep in his old sport. Nowadays Franklin is content to be the impresario of the bull ring at the small (pop. 18,000) Andalusian city of Alcalá de Guadaira, where he can teach the youngsters, and drink manzanilla with the oldtimers in the quiet evenings at the town casino. Last week Seňor Franklino, as he is known at Alcalá, outraged the aficionados...
Republic Steel Corp. and National Lead Co. have started building a pilot plant near Birmingham, to see if billions of tons of such ores as ocher and ferruginous sandstone, which has a 23-27% iron content, can be profitably refined...