Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been flying the unfamiliar highways of the upper air for years, commercial pilots will probably not find it worthwhile to try for this maximum joyride. The stream's twisting center is hard to follow, and it often takes the airplane far from its course. Most pilots will be content to pick up 50 to 100 miles of free speed by flying in the stream's vicinity...
Many U.S. football fans never heard of Miami University of Ohio (enrollment: 6,000). Tucked away in the little (pop. 9,000) town of Oxford, it is far from a national power, remains content to produce a middling-good football team that winds up near the top of the middling-strong Mid-American Conference each year. But on the coaching lines, Miami alumni assume more stature. In 1958 Miami can boast that it has produced the most glittering roster of winning football coaches in the U.S. The record...
...only articulation but coming to the right conclusion, the colleges appear less effective. Despite their vocabulary and their information and their sophistication, college graduates regularly come to diametrically opposed conclusions about matters as various as politics and juvenile delinquency. Even stranger, these conclusions are usually identical in both content and rigidity with the less coherent and logical views of our intelligent garage mechanic. The range of topics on which alumni are competent to talk dispassionately rarely exceeds the number of subjects which he has studied with dispassionate scholars...
...December 2, the CRIMSON ran a feature on Widener Library and the books that are kept in the "Cage." The article stated, "Any book published in the United States or readily available here will be placed in the regular stacks regardless of its content, with the exception of certain medical works like the Kinsey report and birth control propaganda, which are regulated by Massachusetts." [italics added...
...Republicans have been content to match Russia step by step in military development, meanwhile struggling to uphold their "idiotic policy on the China coast," Bowles stated in an address in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. He strongly asserted, however, that his party was equally at fault for "not standing up and questioning the GOP policy...