Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Each day the center receives filters, coated with air pollutants collected by the same process in 23 other U.S. cities, for analysis and comparison. Right now, the Fort Worth filters are tan from wind-borne topsoil. Those from Detroit and Los Angeles show that, at rush hours, the lead content from automobile exhausts is near the limit of human tolerance...
...through-the-looking-glass, when the wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old fuddy-duddyism was a relaxed attitude toward dogma. Students jampack the classes of Reinhold Niebuhr to hear that man is not good and never will be, and that humans must be content to strive for conditional and imperfect ends...
...suppose the student were to conscientiously strive to maximize his own interest and spend every coupon in the book. If he were thrifty this would cost him no more than $300. However, no sensible person would be content with saving $7.50 on a grey flannel suit if by buying two of them he could save...
Also in a rural setting, but light in content is Robert Cowley's "How Reverend Goodman Brought the Good News." Written as a country youth's narrative, the story sketches a minister's efforts to bring a pair of town dissolutes to church. Cowley manages to weave a good many colloquialisms into the piece and to catch the naivete of his narrator's impressions, but frequently his sentences are stiff and uneven...
...door to his court remained wide open. Since Louis insisted that his noblemen live there, housing was a nightmare. With 10.000 people living in the chateau at Versailles, it was as crowded as a slum. The bearer of many a celebrated name had to be content with a dismal attic room, though it seemed to be worth it to bask in the rays of the Sun King: the nobleman of the day counted himself lucky if he could become the official custodian of the royal chamber...