Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French worker would never be content with half an hour for lunch and he never would go into an automat for ready-made food. No, our worker likes to eat well and with discrimination. He goes home for lunch, if he lives near the factory, and . . . he is apt to get a better-prepared and more varied meal...
...time war breaks out between Japan and the United States, I shall not be content merely to capture Guam and the Philippines and occupy Hawaii and San Francisco. I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House at Washington...
...together, was washed out by the depression. Later he also joined the syndicate that salvaged the wrecks of another dreamer, Errett Lobban Cord, whose ill-assorted mass of properties included Vultee. Leader of that syndicate was Wall Street's Victor Emanuel, whose dreams have shown a much solider content than Eaton's or Cord's. Emanuel and Girdler together swung the Vultee-Consolidated deal...
...tune of The Star-Spangled Banner, which has been the official national anthem for only a decade, is an old British drinking song.* It is usually played without arrangement, so that every performer "fakes" to his heart's content...
...malnutrition. The average diet in North China rarely includes meat, consists of yellow corn and millet flour, sometimes mixed with soybean flour, and sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North China has little vitamin B deficiency, for the roughly milled...