Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver it acquires, but it may issue silver certificates for the full "monetary value" of all silver purchased. Example: If the Treasury buys 100 oz. of silver at 50¢ an oz. it must issue $50 worth of silver certificates, but since 100 oz. of silver is the legal content of 129 silver dollars the Treasury may print $129 of silver certificates, taking a "profit" over cost price...
...from the birth place of his predecessor, able James Simpson, who left Field's to solve the troubles of Insulland (TIME, June 13, 1932). And as long as President McKinlay's store sells more goods than any other in the U. S.?Macy's excepted?he is content to let other merchants debate whether an Institution can be a store...
...vacation his score stood: 476 codes made, 262 to go. But the hard-talking NRAdministrator would not go vacationing with his job left in that unsettled state. He delivered an edict: All code-making must be wound up before he gets back to his desk. Then, his conscience content, he hopped an Army airplane with Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson and flew west...
...Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin had to be content with his discovery of a chain of 23 lakes. Two years later the British sent a punitive expedition to Lhasa, which took the bloom off Hedin's desire to go there...
Last week some vacationers packed into suitcases the worthy books they had no time to read last winter. But more were content merely to tuck under their arms a book or two of romantic light fiction that would serve to while away a train journey or fill in a rainy day. Of such aestive pretties, The Road to Nowhere and London Bridge is Falling are fair samples...