Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchestra is unique this summer not only for its large content of clarinets and flutes, but also because the Summer School girls have invaded this traditionally male group for the first time. Moreover, it has piano talent far in excess of usability, and it has on tap a harpist with whom it will rehearse shortly. The weakness of the orchestra lies in a lack of double-basses, only one being now available...
What will happen to pleasure motorboating if gas rationing becomes more stringent is anyone's guess. But for windjammers and skippers who are content to stick close to home waters, the approaching season looks sporty enough...
Some were asymmetric in form as well as in content. Others had designs abstracted from actual objects. The Museum's gay show as a whole proved that the conventional rugmaker's repertory has been unnecessarily
Last May the industry formed the Foreign Language Radio Wartime Control, which adopted a code calling for: 1) advance approval of all scripts by the stations; 2) monitoring of all programs; 3) extensive investigation and fingerprinting of personnel; 4) assumption by each station of full responsibility for program content and loyalty of employes. Last fortnight Censor Byron Price's revised code for wartime radio incorporated the rules which the foreign-language stations themselves had made...
...British, as Winston Churchill said (see p. 26) thought the battle was reaching a "wearing-down stage" and the British generals evidently were content to let it do so. But not Rommel. He lined up his 88-mm. guns in ambush. With a light tank force and possibly with false radio orders transmitted to British tanks (said Churchill: "I do not know what actually happened"), he lured the British to slaughter. At the end of the day 230 out of 300 British tanks had been destroyed. The Battle of Libya was lost that afternoon...