Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago (TIME, Feb. 4) William Randolph Hearst secured an apology from The New York World for saying that he was understood to be the publisher to whom President Harding had referred as saying one thing in private conversation and another thing in his paper. Not content with one apology, Mr. Hearst brought libel suit in England and secured an apology for the same remark from the Associated Newspapers, Ltd., and the Continental Daily Mail. Having produced a letter from the late President showing the assertion to be false, Mr. Hearst magnanimously accepted an apology and an arrangement...
...Yesterday in a driving wind the modern motor broke down and Coach Haines and his driver were driven ashore just below the Watertown Arsenal. But the distressed vessel did not appeal for help to the racy "Patricia" or to the "Brown Pup" or to the "White Pup". She was content to wait for the "John Harvard", which steamed majestically homeward against the wind, towing its now abject competitor behind...
...called La Cellule. In 1916 Dr. Williams suggested that the substance previously called Vitamin B was identical with Wildiers' "bios." Extracts of some substances known to be rich in B stimulate yeast growth, and many substances have been tested for yeast stimulation as a means of measuring their B content...
...this moment Hackett seems to have been content to write the meaning of Shakespeare's regicide, fumbling with his destiny in a large, sprawling handwriting. When he finally blazes forth he telegraphs. It is Shakespeare done in the towering manner of the old school, in which the star is slow to anger, but a hellion when roused. It is a wellrounded, extremely solid conception, wherein Hackett lets his audience warm up gradually, like a motor. He has made of Macbeth a statuesque memorial to the darkling souls of usurpers the world over...
...seemed to many in the audience that all this frantic striving after gigantic effects did not, could not, fulfil Beethoven's expectations for his magnum opus. The Master was straining every nerve to be really Heaven-storming. Not content with a mere orchestra, he had to have a quartet of solo-singers and a huge choir: something decidedly new and revolutionary for his time. He treated the voices brutally: made them sing a series of long high notes that are almost unmanageable...