Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another attempt at violation of civil rights has been added to the record of America's super-patriots, the Legionnaires. Not content with incessantly trying to bar Communists from the New York ballot or with supporting Martin Dies' infamous "investigation" of "un-American" activities, the Legion has protested a scheduled speech by Harry Bridges in Emerson Hall next Armistice Day. The State Adjutant repeated the familiar phrases, terming Bridges "alien" and his ideas "un-American...
...recent issue of the Guardian has compressed so much meaty writing in so little space. It can be read in half an hour, but thinking out the implications of its content will be a much longer task...
...reached flood stage in the depression of the '30s has finally begun to ebb. The big issue in Utah's election is Proposition No. 2, a referendum on post-depression's outstanding example of Stone Age economics: the most vindictive chain-store tax ever proposed. Not content with imposing a tax of $50 to $500 per store (on a graduated scale geared to the total number of stores owned by a chain all over the U.S.), the Utah bill also aims to embalm existing chains by putting additional taxes up to $5,000 on every new unit...
...appeared "to bear in mind perpetually that he cannot fight a duel, while other people can." Of Southern society, she said: "Its characteristic is a want of repose. It is restlessly gay or restlessly sorrowful. It is angry or exulting; it is hopeful or apprehensive. It is never content...
...ultraviolet blood irradiation, first conceived in 1928 by a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer named Emmet K. Knott, to cure septicemia or "blood poisoning" (TIME, June 24, 1940). He found that the ultraviolet rays not only killed the septicemic bacteria in the blood stream but increased the oxygen content of the blood-just the thing, he suspected, for asthmatics wheezy to the point of strangulation. In the last three years he has tried the Knott technique on 24 asthma patients, all of whom defied treatment by conventional methods such as nasal surgery, allergy studies, adrenalin, ephedrine...