Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater than the sum (10,000 francs, or about $390) is the honor attached to the annual R. E. P.-Hirsch prize of the French Astronomical Society. Far greater than the practical effect was the imaginative content of the work for which a young German named Oberth, experimenting in Rumania, last week received this year's Hirsch award...
...There is a little too much striving, too little content with what a man can honestly do. Professor Rogers, as I see it, would have more striving, more discontent...
...high arsenic content of the soil that these skeletons have been so well preserved," said a Sorbonne professor inspecting a cadaver whose clutching fingers showed the agony of his death. "This portion of the prison dates from the 12th Century, perhaps earlier." Skeletons sat upright against the dungeon wall. Some lay with heavy wooden collars about their necks, some were chained to blocks of stone...
...Prohibition of the manufacture of whiskey, gin, absinthe and other beverages of high alcoholic content; restrictions on the importation of such beverages...
...Limitation of licensed drinking places. No new licenses to be issued. No beverages of high alcoholic content to be drunk on the premises. No saloons within a certain distance of schools, barracks, factories...