Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...content a gourmet and good diner...
Dean Sperry said that instruction in the Divinity School continues to be predominantly historical in its content and method. "Theology as the 'queen of the Sciences' no longer enjoys its ancient and unique position. In liberal seminaries it in supplemented, if not supplemented, by academic disciplines which have an independent status in the world of secular concerns. These disciplines are variously psychological, philosophical, sociological, aesthetic, and historical. In this School we have deliberately stressed the historical approach to the study of religion, at the cost of emphasis upon other approaches. The result is a curriculum which is confessedly over-developed...
Democracy must, in short, ensure that "the gains of civilization shall be widely and fairly distributed." "In this titanic struggle," concluded the Godkin lecturer, "forms alone cannot survive unless filled with a substantial content of life...
...coming from Russia, with the revolution of 1917, and moving gradually west until it now has reached England and may possibly cross the Atlantic. He blamed economic conditions of the common man as in great part responsible for this movement. When his income is rising the common man is content and gets along with his fellow men; when his income falls he becomes restless and this agitation tends to increase the fall. Men gather in groups, each hating the other, with war the eventual outcome...
...they firmly believe, are rich in anti-scurvy Vitamin C, while the potato's inside is little more than starch and water. Last month the British Medical Journal laughed at this assertion, referred to some new research of a food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin B1 ] -may have a rough exterior, but clearly conceals beneath...