Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple device which shows farmers the moisture content of their grains and forage, enabling them to judge proper time for harvest and storage. (Many a barn is set alight by spontaneous combustion of hay, stored too wet.) With the new gadget, invented by Ohio Agronomist Robert Q. Parks, the farmer can test his crops quickly in the field by adding water-hungry calcium carbide to plant tissue, which then loses weight in proportion to its moisture content...
...Gold Coast will ring to the tune of Strauss, as Adams and Lowell both close the term's festivities with waltzing parties from 8 to 12 o'clock. Ruby Newman will supply the music for the Gold Coasters, and to it some 60 couples will dance to their hearts' content, for attendance has been limited to allow room enough for waltzing par excellence with all the trimmings...
...square; it's a hang-over from a colonial meeting joint now passing for a race track. Every would-be traffic reformer must accept the tenet that the place hasn't changed appreciably in design since 1636 and will continue so. Therefore any traffic regulations will have to be content with modifying what stands...
...golden winter afternoon. The room was as yet relatively empty, and the soughing of the wind was broken only by the melancholy, far-distant clanking of the steam heating system. He roused himself from his dreaming and started to sit down. He was sleepy, and filled with the quiet content of one who has had a good time the night before but now is actually getting to work...
...language courses will not contribute an iota toward the liberal education that is the ultimate aim of distribution. The only way to avoid these difficulties is to provide the broad area surveys which the Faculty has approved in theory but shelved indefinitely. No difficulties, either the piddling ones of content or the more potent one of finances, should be allowed to defer the setting up of the area courses at the soonest opportunity. Without them the distribution requirements, although headed in the right direction, will be a futile gesture...