Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the bill, the cost of domestic letters would jump from 3? to 4?, domestic air mail from 6? to 7?, postcards from 2? to 3?. Second-class rates (magazines and newspapers) will rise by steps over a three-year period to a total increase (weighted for content) of 28% for editorial matter and 53% for advertising matter...
...rabbit symbol plays a "deus ex machina" role similar to the oracles in Oedipus Rex and the Witches in Macbeth. And it is no injustice to mention Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Thurber in the same breath. They differ in modes of presentation, but not in depth of content...
...office party and the free pass to the ball game. In earlier times, newsmen were expected to pay for the hospitality with stories on the sponsored event -the open ing of a new hotel or service, the dedication of this, the initiation of that. Lately, the sponsor is content if reporters go home thinking warmly of his product...
...days later a resident of the suburb, acting on an impulse, unearthed the treasure between two telephone poles at a depth of three inches. Hurrying to claim his $1,000, he arrived at the station in the midst of a swarm of lawsuits from angry property owners. Apparently well content with this harvest of ill will, Don Burden moved ahead with his next gimmick: a "Lucky Phone Number" contest with genuine Shetland ponies as prizes. Crowed Burden: "I'm going to rock this market like it's never been rocked before...
...more open sewers, no more flies, no more rats." "Nobody is arrogant here, nobody is grabby, nobody feels himself above or below anybody else." The whole population is "identically dressed in blue cotton." "Nightclubs and brothels have gone," and there is "not one drunkard." Pedicab operators are so content that they no longer quarrel and shout; when "two bicycles or pedicabs collide, those involved exchange smiles." Every morning, all the ministerial bureaucrats "line up in front of the administration buildings" and perform calisthenics -"mildly incongruous," perhaps, but "nothing [is] more reasonable than the principle of compulsory physical education." Such "germ...