Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the present requirement is in fact a significant one. This presupposition, however, is not justified. Since three years of secondary school Latin or its equivalent in college Latin or in Greek is required for the A.B. degree, those who have not studied the Classics to this extent simply content themselves with an S.B., regardless of their fields of concentration. A regulation that produces such terminological monsters as the Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts or Music can hardly be justified without recourse to emotionalism. More serious than this perversion is the fact that the true student of science...
...great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic trophies. The still lovely Emma Eames divides her time between Paris and Manhattan, occasionally revisits her old home in Bath, Me. Alma Gluck stopped opera-singing in 1912. Concerts and phonograph record royalties made her rich. And she is content to be a New York hostess and devoted wife to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
...Henry Cabot Lodge to announce : "Another attempt is now under way to make us the whipping boy of Europe by joining the League Court. . . ." All this outcry sold newspapers and presumably whipped Hearstreaders into a mild frenzy of fear and protest. With that any ordinary publisher would have been content. But William Randolph Hearst is also a Power and a Patriot. So while his newspapers foamed noisily, the private Washington lobby which he has long maintained to fight for U. S. isolation and lesser Hearst, causes went quietly into action...
...real Santa Claus. Once every few years-they get free rides to Moscow and lavish entertainment at the State's expense. Two thousand strong, they sit in the onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II and are known as the All-Union Congress of Soviets. The Congress is content that its members do not rule Russia but merely ratify the acts of the Stalin dictature. Hand-picked by Communist agents in the provinces for this duty, the Congressmen and Congresswomen are of a type to enjoy it thoroughly. Last week Santa Stalin and all the good Congressfolk...
Twice each year most undergraduates are confronted with the problem of how to make an intelligent and informed choice of courses for the ensuing half year, and just so often they are forced to weigh the risks and uncertainties of courses whose content is largely a mystery, and to make the best...