Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself. Dr. Jolliffe, an international authority on the physiology and pathology of heavy tippling, doubted this. Polyneuritis seemed to him more like a deficiency disease, such as the Oriental malady called beriberi which is also caused by lack of Vitamin B. Because alcohol is a food of high caloric content, it seemed to the scientist that many topers simply did not eat enough food to get enough of the vitamin. In every case where the vitamin intake was sufficient there was no polyneuritis...
When my guest arrived and saw the piles of books I had assembled for him by use of the bibliography he had sent me in advance, he was quite content to use the smaller type, for the heaped-up authorities in my Study at once made it apparent that there would be no difficulty, more serious than a back-ache, in filling the assigned space...
From a saleable standpoint, however, officials observed that the gold content of the objects stolen would amount to only $200 at the most...
...weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according to production costs. Sizes include lump, egg, pea, nut, run-of-mine, industrial slack and stoker. Qualities range from "A" through "G" or further, depending on sulfur and ash content, b.t.u. rating, etc. Result of such complications is that the B. C. C. has had to work out 30,000 different minimum coal prices...
...spirit of America." Its four movements are labeled "Yearning," "Sorrow," "Humor" and "Aspiration." Pleasantly sentimental in the moments when it was not jazzy, the score was more impressive in its clear professional instrumentation (Composer Still once orchestrated for Paul Whiteman) than through its intrinsic musical qualities. Minus its jazz content it might possibly have been a better symphony; minus its symphonic pretensions, its jazz moments would certainly have been better jazz...