Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they flaunt a sophistication far more tangible than the bored expression of those who have lived a life of smiles and champagne--theirs is a sophistication sprung from the steaming earth, the planting of their crops, and the legends of their ancestors and their ancestors' gods. They are calmly content in their ignorance, and even if they were given the means whereby to learn of the modern world, the traditions of centuries would keep them as narrow minded and oblivious to the ways of others as the speed of the Twenticth Century narrows the viewpoint of cosmopolitan society. If sophistication...
...excuse for any labor conditions below standard. For example, until the latest increases the dining-hall employees were paid below the most liberal rates outside, and even the increases leave the waitresses poorly paid if they are compared with workers in the best restaurants. Likewise, Harvard cannot be content as it seems to be well-content, that its working conditions equal those outside...
George L. Stout, head of the Department of Technical Research at the Fogg Art Museum, and John S. Thatcher, Assistant Director of the same museum announced yesterday that the cross on Bishop Lawrence's chest in his portrait in Leverett dining hall is caused by variations in the moisture content of the paint and the support...
...Alternate condensation on the wall and drying from the radiator below would cause a wide variation in the moisture content of the paint and support. Those parts of the canvas and the paint film next the stretcher piece would have a steady moistness...
Stahley Hopeful But Not Content...