Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless, Albany was not content. It clamored to the Interstate Commerce Commission that high railroad freight rates put it at a disadvantage in competing with the ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston. Last week, over railroad protests, the I. C. C. recognized Albany as an Atlantic port, ordered the roads to allow Albany the lower rates to the western trunk lines applicable to seaborne goods landed at other eastern ports. In handling European shipping into the Midwest, Albany's new rate status puts her on a par with Philadelphia, behind Baltimore, ahead of New York. Another gain from...
...this with the wide world and dizzy speed at easy command. So the new comedy goes tearing around at a breakneck pace, and drives one into gulps of amazed laughter. "Love on the Run" is just such a picture, and keeps the promise contained in its title. But not content to run amuck with foaming month, it has anitched one of the major weapons of the great class of World War pictures, the international apy. And no with malingnant foreigners periodically sticking their heads into the whirlwind pranks of crazy Americans, "Love on the Run" is calculated...
...Freeman-Watts "patients have become more placid, more content, more easily cared for by their relatives...
...dressed in a cowboy suit, submitted to being rolled in a barrel, roped over a fake precipice, ordered to make faces at the camera, before he was politely informed that the whole scheme had been dropped. When he heard that William Archer was also hood winked he was content. "God forbid," he said, "that anyone should say I did not see a joke, if William Archer could...
...institutions and are really trade schools, to those hard-headed men who believe that the empirical sciences are the backbone of the age and culture a luxury only for the wealthy, Robert Maynard Hutchins issues a poignant challenge. He has written so logical and convincing an analysis of the content and purpose of education that we find it practically impossible to refute any of his principal convictions...