Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's players had the edge on over-tricks but missed a crucial grand slam and five games. Harvard was content to play the 15 trick laydown grand slam in six clubs. Not all of the five missed games, however, can be blamed on the team's underbidding as two were only 25 per cent plays, not worth bidding when scoring by IMPs...
...reducing the work of art to Its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comfortable...
Moles first presents a derivation of Shannon's H-formula for information content which does not live up to its claim to being non-mathematical. (How could one derive a mathematical expression non-mathematically?) He then applies the formula to a few examples. He ignores recent statistical findings that in estimating H from relative frequencies some correction must be made for sample size; but that doesn't really matter because of his relative frequencies are drawn out of thin air. Instead of actually calculating H with his few real relative frequencies, he rounds them off and lumps them together, saving...
...again on-again, frustrating negotiations came to an end last week as Boston's five dailies were struck and forced to shut down. The cause of the news blackout was the same culprit that struck New York papers for 114 days in 1962-63: the printers union. Not content merely to strike, some I.T.U. members appear to have hacked up 75 pages of type in the Boston Globe's composing room at a cost of $14,000 to the paper...
...jails during the '20s, before turning out tiis wry, dry tales of family life, fisticuffs and "coorting" on the old sod, honing a comic sense of Irish blather and illogic, which once led him to confess that like the I.R.A.'s "make-believe revolution, I had to content myself with a make-believe education, and the curious thing is that it was the make-believe that succeeded...