Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contented Trader. The 1953 version of the White Sox is Richards' idea of what a ball club should be: hustling, bustling and fiery. It lacks heavyweight hitting, but will try to make up for it by defensive skill, tight pitching, and speed on the base paths. Richards was more than content this winter to trade slugging First Baseman Eddie Robinson (22 homers) for Philadelphia First Baseman Ferris Fain, who hit enough singles last year to become league batting champion (.327). Fain will be Richards' "take-charge" man in a. tight defensive infield that includes Second Baseman Nelson...
...press finds cause for rejoicing in [Salisbury's] reporting should astonish no one. What is considerbly less comprehensible, however is that one of the world's great newspapers should place so high a price on the privilege of maintaining a correspondent in Soviet Russia that it is content with [Salisbury...
...when the novelist came to Manhattan on a visit and said he was interested in television. They talked for half an hour: "Most of the time, Faulkner just asked questions about sets, time lapses, costume changes, camera techniques. He was more concerned about how it was done than in content." After reading a number of Faulkner short stories, Kuhl finally selected The Brooch as the likeliest candidate: "You'd say to yourself, 'God, that's an impossible thing to tackle,' but then you'd turn to the next story and that was worse...
Dwight Eisenhower keeps a red leather Bible at his bedside, and, judging by the religious content of his speeches, he reads it. His expression of religious faith is more than politician's lip service. Writing in the April Reader's Digest, Roving Editor Stanley High, one of Ike's campaign advisers and once a Congregationalist lay preacher, explains that, in Ike's lexicon, the "spiritual" needs of the U.S. rank ahead of political or economic ones...
Even foreign languages will be involved in the study of ideas. Those taking French will read Voltaire with a view to the intellectual content of his work. The Italian, Spanish, German, Latin and Greek language courses will be similarly oriented...