Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tonal mass," "plastic power," went away well content that if they had not passed the final dicta on Manship, they had, at least, put marble into words. The attendants at the Scott and Fowles Gallery, hearing these phrases, as indeed they were often expressly intended to, were not guilty of visible leers. They had been trained by long service to realize that loose verbiage, when applied to beauty in bronze and stone, is not necessarily an evidence of slovenly culture. They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients...
...flying Finn gave evidence of morose spirits. He had contracted a chest cold and had hurt his leg while swimming; hence his visit to the bath. He was tired. He jogged around the track, 21 2/5 seconds slower than his own record time of 4 min. 58 sec., content to defeat the other contenders by a mere 30 yards or more. He did not know, he said, that he had to run that night. Hence, for the first time in his U.S. visit, he failed to break a world's record...
...Finnish magazine, Tyolaisur heilijan Joulu, appeared an article by Paavo Nurmi which said: ". . . How lonesome I felt in my youth when I was ordered to walk to church each Sunday with my father, while other boys had their chance to play outdoors to their hearts' content...
...founding of a business or the conduct of an important and complicated case at law. Miss Lowell has for many years been interested in the collection of Keatsiana. Her library safe holds one of the best groups of Keats manuscripts and letters in existence. She has not been content to allow any fact, however small, that it was in any way possible to obtain, to escape her, and has brought unusual powers of detection to bear in discovering, and as unusual powers of understanding in interpreting. Recently, in New York City for a brief rest, during the course of which...
...there was a Captain Benjamin Leavitt, who was not content that this paltry 30 fathoms should be set as a lower limit to his activities. In 1922 he bought a ship, the Blakely, from the Shipping Board. He fitted her out for diving and salvaging, and laid in an equipment of patent diving suits of manganese bronze (which resists salt water corrosion), with flexible parts of interlocking copper tubing and ball bearing joints, with portable air equipment, carrying a four-hour supply of oxygen and a telephone...