Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...athletes. Some House members have gone so far as to suggest that he recruit a few House football players. "I might," he says with a nod towards Eliot House, "Finley's been getting away with it for years." Other than that, Perkins has no immediate plans. "I'll be content to just keep on trying to make big ones out of little ones," he says...
...River and pumped out 125 billion gallons of water to get at it (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942). In 1949, he gave Inland options to test-drill nearby deposits. Eaton said these tests indicated the presence of 50 billion tons of ore, some of it with 62 to 64% iron content"-i.e., as rich as the famous Mesabi ores now nearing exhaustion. No man to belittle his holdings, Eaton grandly added: "These deposits go right down to China...
Although the privately-owned Idaho Power Company is still trying to stir up public opinion against "socialism" so that private companies can build the Hell's Canyon project, most companies are content to use power from government dams...
...guiding light, must be something different: it must be to keep on working positively and constructively for the good of the country. Of course, it is easier to express these lofty sentiments than to practice them. Undoubtedly we shall have our partisan moments. But let us never be content merely to oppose; let us always propose something better...
...Every alumnus ought to look at every investigation of colleges with a jaundiced eye and say to the man: ' What is your particular capacity to determine the intellectual content of the modern world?'. . . But to call everyone who doesn't think just as we do a Socialist, and then to say there is no difference between a Socialist and a Communist, will destroy higher education in America...