Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, for the first time, the space in the Catalogue was allotted sensibly more, for instance to the Government and History courses that most students use for distribution, and less to advanced Biology courses which nobody would take unless he were in the field and knew about the content before he ever saw the Catalogue. The new arrangement of space has made this year's Catalogue a lot more helpful to the student, and leaves only one matter for the Committee to clear up in next year's edition...
Barnard's reputation as the songsters of the Quadrangle extends beyond Christmas caroling. When the Annex song content was revived last year, Barnard was the first dorm to receive the silver trophy. It remained on the hall's mantle piece until last month, when the commuters won it at this year's contest. In its place rests a tiny Korean stone cup, an anonymous gift, Inscribed "obviously Barnard Hall should have won the 1948 song contest." "We'll win the trophy back again next time" the hall's residents claim...
...prison term uncomfortable. He got paper and writing material from his home, also any extra food he wished. "But I had to cut down smoking," Tanner sighed to reporters. "I used to smoke five feet a day [15 four-inch panatelas]; in prison I had to be content with only five four-inchers daily." Once a week the prisoner held a conference in his cell with Socialist colleagues in the government...
...first time since 1941 everybody was happy. The team was happy, the coaches were content, everybody else was lost for three days in a pleasant haze. Yale showed the same plays and the same backs that had been invincible for two years--and lost. Crimson runners broke away for long runs, linemen blocked like tigers, and the team came from behind in the last period to win going away...
...claims. Another prospector, Norbert Miller of Toronto, saw him staking, guessed what was up. As the word spread along what prospectors call "the moccasin trail," the rush started. In no time 500 claims had been staked around Campbell's. When Campbell's ore samples showed a 60% content of radioactive mineral and 99% of it uranium (10% is considered pay dirt), the boom went skyhigh...