Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dishonor our dead. . . . The proposition is utterly destitute of courage and moral sense. . . . One of my sons was gassed and the other was a combatant soldier. . . . But a nation without spirit or an elevated soul is as bad as a derelict on the seas. . . . This country should not be content simply to eat and sleep and go to the movies. That would be a sorry contribution to modern civilization...
...personal gift of $20,000, and a State gift of $30,000, and offered six battalions of native infantry and camel corps. Still doing his bit, His Highness took his sword and son to the Viceroy personally, regretted that owing to his age he would have to be content with sacrificing his heir and not himself. Her Highness the Maharanee also caught the loyalty fever, gave Britain $4,000 from her pocket money...
...year-old, crippled Maharaja of Udaipur became so passionately pro-British that at first he offered his entire kingdom and resources, later was content to grant $28,000 in a lump and $19,000 annually...
Minnesota, last year's champion, has its usual big boys in the backfield, but its line is weak. Therefore brilliant Bernie Bierman, winner of four Big Ten titles and three mythical U. S. championships in the seven years he has been coach at Minnesota, must be content to sit this one out. Already, perennially mighty Minne sota has lost two, tied...
...could have secured his objectives by this display of force he might have been content for the moment, with all the additional prestige which another bloodless success would have procured for him with his own people. But it would only have been to start again once the world had recovered from the shock, and even his own people were beginning to be tired of these repeated crises. . . . Guns instead of butter were becoming more and more unpopular except with the younger generation, and Hitler may well have wondered what might happen to his Nazi revolution if its momentum were allowed...