Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to the former, the only group affected would be the absolute prohibitionists. Certainly real temperance opinion cannot be concerned with the inclusion of beer of low alcoholic content on the menus of student dining halls. That the privilege need be abused is an assumption, after all, largely gratuitous. If the authorities are disposed to cynicism, there can be little objection to an intelligent regulation. As for those who disapprove of the consumption of alcohol within whatever limits, one would have thought that an experiment of ten years duration had discredited them rather thoroughly. To such groups as the intransigent...
...appears stupidly absurd. Before the appearance of "The American Scene" Mr. Hill was merely one of a number of pleasant voices and nimble wits which took advantage of the fact that there is small room for adjectives in the hasty columns of a metropolitan newspaper, that John Citizen is content to allow others to do his reading, thinking, and imagining for him, and that the radio offers a lucrative medium to pleasant voices and nimble wits. In turning to the sterner requirements of print, Mr. Hill seeks entrance into an able company. If one is averagely sentimental about public personalities...
...President Hoover's committee on Social trends, is contained in two large volumes of some thirty chapters, each of which deals with some phase of present day social life, especially with regard to the changes that have taken place during the last 30 years. Probably the usual reader will content himself with the introduction, written by the committee, and with one or two chapters on subjects which fall in his special field. But whatever part he reads will almost certainly give him the impression of a curious inequality in our rate of progress as a people, for he will...
...with their advisee in order to become acquainted with them, a suggestion which may another year result in more than a nodding acquaintanceship between Adviser and Advisee. No mere suggestion, however, will ever dispense with the utter ignorance of courses and fields in which the majority of Advisers are content to bask. Not until the College insists that its advisers possess first of all a reasonably, complete knowledge of a t least the more popular fields of concentration, including a thorough appreciation of the possibilities of distribution, and secondly, a reasonable amount of personal interest in each advisee, will...
...these captious ladies with Saratoga and Bunker Hill has come to be a mere bloodless atavism. Probably the catholicity of vision required to realize that George Washington was, after all, a rebel, would be too much to ask of his spiritual daughters. But, at least, they might find innocuous content in polishing their guns and genealogies, and withdraw their febrile antiquarianism from the serious problems of politics and government...