Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Material wealth can only rightly be interpreted in terms of human lives. . . . The fundamental challenge to the Christian gospel is the fact of human fellowship. That is the gospel. But will professing Christians live up to it? Will good men be content to be less wealthy, less powerful, less secluded, if only they can give more health, greater freedom and larger opportunity to the whole body of the people...
...Oxford Group is the biggest hoax ever forced upon man in the name of religion. It is devoid of any intellectual content; it is suited to people who don't think at all. A chimpanzee would be eligible for membership provided it had a dinner jacket and looked respectable...
...decision will not affect directly the value of the dollar. But prominent among the columns & columns of press speculation on an adverse decision was an opinion of some "departmental experts'' in Washington to the effect that the dollar might be revalued upward to its old gold content. That would mean a drop in the price of gold from...
...painting guzzling guitar players, beery burghers, laughing children, biographers have endeavored to make the domestic hard-working Frans Hals into a lowland Cellini. He is important because, while his greater contemporary Rembrandt was a universal genius who might have lived in any country, Hals was first & last a Dutchman, content to record beautifully the smug unimaginative faces of the clays of Holland's greatest prosperity...
...Sage of San Simcon has a new ace up his sleeve. Not content with prattling against internationalism, he is now devoting his attention to the eradication of college Communism, which, he proclaims, is growing rapidly through the subversive teachings of bearded professors...