Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...static thing, at the Exposition. Expected, after viewing complicated manoeuvers of spectacular science, were, at least, a handful of clocks, or perhaps a gigantic hourglass. Thanks to a far-seeing director, no mechanical movement is in evidence. Even the visitors to the building are restricted in activity, and are content to plop their beer-saturated bodies into the chairs, and curtail the movement of their gum-chewing jaws...
...Loyal subjects who have wondered why George V seems to have a dirty face on so many silver coins were enlightened by Sir Robert Johnson, Comptroller of the Royal Mint. Recalling that the silver content was decreased in 1920 from 925 parts in 1,000 to only 500 parts, Sir Robert shrugged: "The result is all those dirty coins you see today. The thin covering of fine silver wears off and leaves a dirty patch on the King's cheek. We have now developed a new alloy to make the coins wear the same color all through...
...Puerto Rico where first his grandfather and then his father were Scandinavian vice-consuls, he studied painting at Denmark's Royal Academy, exhibited a few academic landscapes, interiors and nudes. In 1928 he arrived in the U. S. to wangle odd jobs, worked up to testing the water content of chewing gum in a Long Island City chiclets factory, finally in 1929 to an art department job in Manhattan's Erwin. Wasey Advertising Company. Last January he was discharged...
...indigent and helpless. But in America the State is now performing these normal functions so very badly that even if it were right in principle to extend its functions, a totally blind man could see that the time is not yet ripe for such extension. . . . The government should content itself in the field of industry with acting as a check to private industry's exploitation and greed...
Stuffy Dutch burghers, members of the Netherlands Society for Industry and Commerce, opened at their meeting in Rotterdam last week a letter as explosive as two sticks of dynamite. Signed by Holland's world potent petrol tycoon, Sir Henri Deterding, it urged the Netherlands to reduce the gold content of the gulden, "in order to help trade...