Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, not in his budget message but in a press conference held before he sent it to Congress, President Roosevelt intimated that he thought it would be foolish to build up such a huge reserve. For the time being he would be content to let the reserve pile up, but after it has got a start, adopt a "pay-as-you-go" policy, presumably reducing Social Security taxes so as to collect no more than was paid out in pensions...
Falling to pieces in the last ten minutes of the final period the Yardling hockey team had to content themselves with a tie with Andover at the Arena yesterday. Entering the final period with the score two to one in their favor, the Freshmen scored twice in the first five minutes of play and then failed to withstand the five man attack of the Andover sextet which sank three goals to tie it up at four all. No overtime periods could be played since the time reserved in the Arena had elapsed...
...actually set eyes on mysterious Mr. Cuse, the cause of all the commotion. At his Jersey City apartment, where he has a reputation for shyness and big tips, no reporter was permitted to talk to Mr. Cuse, his wife, ten-year-old son or maid. Photographers had to be content with his physical description given by apartment attendants: medium height, stocky, mustached. Out of sight though he kept himself, the "Jersey Zaharoff" was nevertheless well represented in print by statements handed out during the week at his office. To Roosevelt's threat of new legislation, Mr. Cuse had these...
...science for neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which determines the Vitamin D content of a cod-liver oil sample by passing a light beam through...
...which first became audible in 1926. By 1929 the movies' "canned" musical accompaniments had thrown 10,000 musicians into the streets. Radio stations began to use "electrical transcriptions" more & more, performers less & less. The American Federation of Musicians groped for a way to fight this displacement, had to content itself with issuing cruel cartoons and advertisements attacking "robot music" (TIME...