Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davis quickly began setting the record straight. The Interior Department, he explained, is required by law to make grants on claims with reasonably good ore-producing prospects. On first considering the Al Sarena case, said Davis, he ordered that new assays be taken. They showed sufficient ore content to warrant the grants. Timber rights naturally were included in the grants...
Modern American education received a stern talking-to in the New York Times Magazine yesterday from Henry Steele Commager, professor of history at Columbia University. Commager, comparing the American system to the European, called for "more rather than less intellectual content, higher rather than lower standards...
...members of the Chowder and Marching Society, had been looking a little uneasy in a chef's cap and apron) arose to speak, he found himself full-face against his problem: political motives would be read into anything of substance that he might say. He had, therefore, to content himself with the unimportant...
Students using Lamont lately have been complaining that some of their books are being stolen. However, the heyday of book thievery on a large scale, like horse thievery, seems to have disappeared. Back in 1932, the library robbers were not content to take an occasional book from a desk...
Would the subcommittee go on with its investigation of Communism in the U.S. press? Yes, said Senator Eastland. Would it investigate the Washington press corps? No, he quickly assured a questioner. Had the investigation shown any Communist effort to influence the content of any recognized metropolitan daily? Said Eastland: "No." But as the hearings ended, he and Senator Jenner maintained that the sessions had disclosed "a significant effort on the part of Communists to penetrate leading American newspapers." They added: "We feel confident that the American press will prove fully competent to deal with the problem in its own American...