Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, which says that these dealers and all others who handle junk or second-hand goods must register every purchase and sale that they make each day in a book. This book must be open for inspection by the police at any time, and a daily report on its content be submitted to the authorities at sundown...
...first of these two idle pieces, the hubbub centers around Gracie Allen and George Burns, as the sponsors of the Platt Golf Ball hour. But one is scarcely expected to be content with the inanitities of the one as parried by the harshness of the other. For recruits from the other come in troops. There are Jack Benny and Bob (Bazooka) Burns, Martha Ray and Benny Fields, and Leopold Stokowski doing some extraordinary things with his hands, which his orchestra turns into music...
Simultaneously last week in Boston and in Philadelphia batons flicked into the air, releasing the music that marked the overture to the 1936-37 season. In Boston, Beacon Hillers, not content merely to clap their gloved hands, stood in deference to Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky who gravely bowed his thanks, peaked the afternoon with a peerless performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...they think about Communism. But there is a very great difference between the parties in what they do about Communism. And I will tell you why Communism is a manifestation of the social unrest which always comes with widespread economic maladjustment; we in the Democratic party have not been content merely to denounce this menace. We have been realistic enough to face it. We have been intelligent enough to do something about it. . . . In the spring of 1933 we faced a crisis which was the ugly fruit of twelve years of neglect, neglect of the causes of economic and social...
...Bingham observes, the fault lies with college presidents who have sat by, content to watch their institutions catapult to fame behind the artillery of big time football brigades. President Conant has declared his contempt for "professional teams maneuvering behind collegiate banners", and has proposed an endowment policy to rid Harvard's sports of their dependence on gate receipts. But unfortunately an endowment fund large enough to handle the A.A.A. annual $400,000 budget seems pitifully remote. Mean-while Harvard is at the mercy of other colleges whose standards may vary with the wind...