Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowds because they liked the big sign that hung in the Auditorium. Its letters spelled out, "You Can Believe Landon," but it was no compliment to the Republican Nominee. It expressed the crowd's opinion of Franklin Roosevelt. For peace and good will to men, both parties were content to wait until after election...
...terms of an analogy which the debate had brought to his mind. He likened the debaters to combattants of old whose arguments were their lances, whose victory was the smile of a fair lady, the smile of Athene. Instead of the smile of Athene, the debaters had to be content with the approbation of their large audience. Their decision was the only victory to be considered. In thus concluding the debate, Mr. Greene also formally closed the celebration of the Tercentenary...
Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
...summer of 1821, a 35-year-old wandering painter named John James Audubon arrived to teach French and painting to 16-year-old Eliza Pirrie. It was almost his first good fortune. He got $60 a month, had his afternoons free, could study to his heart's content the varied bird life of West Feliciana...
...advanced are Fairchild's aerial cameras that the company now has the field entirely to itself in the U. S., and its equipment is standard in the civil and military services of no less than 21 for eign lands. Eastman Kodak is quite content to supply film. One growing use for film is in Fairchild's machine-gun camera, an instrument for training combat pilots...