Word: contains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which can be regarded as proof." The commission's chairman declared that Dr. Cook's claim was "shameless...
Angry also was Publisher Merrill Meigs of Hearst's Evening American when he observed in his own newspaper an advertisement promising that the costlier Herex would contain new features, ''plenty of interest and entertainment for evening reading in your home. . . ." Feeling that any Hearstian reading matter consumed by Chicagoans in the evening should be supplied by his American, Publisher Meigs peremptorily deleted the offending paragraph...
Science concerns the totality . . . of concepts directly connected with sense experiences, and theorems connecting them. In its first stage of development, science does not contain anything else...
...concerts with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society. As has been announced, this is to be the famous maestro's final season in America, and consequently it will be the last opportunity Bostonians will have to hear him. The programs are likely to be exceedingly popular, for they contain the great masterpieces of symphonic literature, which, with Toscanini's incomparable approach, will be anything but hackneyed. That of Monday evening consists of Weber's Overture to "Der Freischutz," Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Smetana's symphonic poem "Vitava," and Wagner's Overture...
...Album will be in composition substantially the same as those of past years, although it will contain the life histories and pictures of 1103 Seniors, the largest ever included in one Album, as compared with 946 last year. This large figure results from the fact that all who have at any time been associated with the Class of 1936 are included in the volume...