Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century, several nearly complete skeletons and many fragments have been found. Scholars suspect that Aepyornis titan may have given rise to the legend of a great bird called the roc, which is told in the Arabian Nights. About 25 football-sized Aepyornis titan eggs exist in various museums. Not content with possessing one of the finest specimens known, Collector Ray last week declared his belief that his egg belongs to another and larger species than that represented by other eggs. If he is right his egg is unique...
...relations are getting the scrubbing of their lives. The sheepishness with which labor spys and executives unfolded their shabby exploits hints that the rule of pry and prowl and deceive will be dropped in the future. General Motors, the target of the current investigation, has oozed unsavory details. Not content with ordinary spying, its men stole union files, deliberately broke the Wisconsin law for registration of detectives, and jammed up union activities. Some of its workers in Lansing read in yesterday's paper that all the officers of their union were detectives, a triumph for the Pinkerton Agency...
...Yellow Cruise" is the acme of the travelogue. This pictorial account of the third Citroen-Haardt-Audouin-Dubreuil Asiatic Expedition is not content to edify with its splendid scenes of the exotic, but succeeds in giving to the collection a unity and a thrilling dramatic punch, involving both terror and beauty...
...Association's powerfully censorious Committee on Foods as well as editor of the A. M. A.'s Journal, scolded the Californians as indecent exaggerators. Declared Dr. Fishbein: "All . . . varieties of the orange are excellent sources of vitamin C. To direct attention to slight differences in vitamin C content with the view of capitalizing them is both misleading and contrary to the interests of the public. Such unfortunate publicity tends to defeat the efforts of nutritionists and physicians to educate the public about the importance of the various fruits and other foods that go to make up our diet...
...photographer made himself much too arty. Not content with mere technical perfection, he tried to make a lot of psychological double exposures, which turn out to be what most double exposures are, mistakes. But despite all this censure, it is really quite possible to overlook the flaws and enjoy the picture for its better dialogue and acting...