Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time that you (members of the congregation) are compelled, under existing conditions to be much too silent and passive in your relations to the conduct of our affairs. There ought to be some means for the expression of your opinion as to the whole manner and content of our church life...
Disregarding literary content, the volumes are chosen solely on the basis of "sound design and sound workmanship in all respects" from books published in the United States and Canada...
...virgin and castrated female and even in male animals; it induced parental behavior in birds and rats; it increased the basal metabolism (heat production) ; it seemed to affect carbohydrate metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release of the pituitary substance which normally stimulates sex activity...
...Herd, onetime (1902) British Open golf champion, became the hero of the $5,000 Rickmansworth Open, when he scored a 67, six under par, in the second round. His 30 for the first nine holes set a new record for major British tournaments, but Oldster Herd had to be content with 19th place (288) at the end of the tournament...
...recognize the claims of others to civilized living, a willingness to submit the means for the attainment of that end to the traditional methods of discussion and debate, and an avowal so to arrange our institutional life as to make it realize, so far as humanly possible, the content of the new and growing liberty...