Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...starches discovered to have no permanent effect in heightening blood sugar content in diabetics...
...Industry," said no more about his "no compromise" position. Said he: "The idea that it might be possible that the 'collecting department' [that which supplies the public] could be some Government or combination of buyers who will dictate to the producer the minimum with which he ought to be content so that he may be kept alive, is bound to be shortlived because it is entirely illogical. . . . Do not be led away by the noise of publications about Trusts. . . . What is to be done? . . . My advice is: Let us create 'an association of cooperation' on the basis of possibility...
...identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before an examination; unless a man is willing to get, this sort of instruction earlier than the last minute, he must be content with professional cramming instead of guidance from students who have recently met and coped with his problems...
...content with this triumph over the system he plans a still more drastic experiment and refuses an invitation to Sunday night supper in order to test the effect of seven dinenrs, seven lunches, and no breakfast. Sunday night he gets an even greater thrill, for by eating all his breakfasts in the Square, which is a great inconvenience because he has no nine o'clock and being, as you see, a conscientious fellow, has reserved this hour for study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just...
...advantages derived from this type of stack are two-fold: being self-supporting, it does not require heavy construction and permits the maximum possible cubic content of the library to be used for book storage. Also, being flexible, it eliminates waste space...