Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico's victorious rebels of 1910-17 burned down the stately haciendas, handed out land helter-skelter-and watched farm production sag. By 1940, when 64 million acres had been given to landless families, agricultural output stood 20% lower than in 1910. Reason: the new landowners were content to raise just enough to eat, committed such disastrous follies as smashing irrigation dams to plant crops in the fertile lakebeds. Only half a century later did Mexico become a big producer...
...uncompromising man, Speedster Campbell was not content, declared he would try for 300 m.p.h. again in 1960. Still more uncompromisingly, he has announced his intention to make 400 m.p.h. on land, is now building a new jet-driven car (also to be named Bluebird) to try for the land mark next year at Utah's Bonneville salt flats. Said he: "I have decided to retire after I have got the double...
...throwing parts of mental landscape into severe relief." The catholicity of the book itself precludes effective discrimination. But more important, one misses a sense of perceptivity in their comments on the lecture system, on work outside the classroom, on the honors system or on tutorial. The writers have remained content as scribes with no ambition to be analysts. There is no reason why men who have studied the community as closely as they must have need be ashamed of their own editorial views. There is, in fact, every reason to believe that their views would be as welcome...
...yearbook can communicate a general impression, 323 emanates one of personalized and some how incommunicable frustration with Harvard. Until the editors find out how to generalize from their own experiences, learn to document a serious argument, and learn to recognize an important issue, they will have to be content with white-wash, spotted here and there with blotches of unhappiness. When they do learn about these things, they may produce a really interesting publication...
Said one Western scholar last week: "As pious Moslems, al-Azhar men don't drink, smoke or go out with loose women. And they are content with low pay." Says Rector Chaltout: "For ten centuries, al-Azhar has interpreted the Koran and taught its language. Now it will widen the Scope and knowledge of its graduates so that they may paint a true picture of Islam wherever they travel...