Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Certain chemical elements of the blood, such as calcium and the lipids [fats], show no appreciable change with age, in contrast to the known alteration of the chemical content of the tissues, especially the arteries." One way to forestall aging, some chemists suspect, is a judicious diet. Dr. Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia found that when rats were given increased amounts of either calcium or riboflavin (vitamin 62) or vitamin A, senility was deferred and they lived longer...
Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Mexico three years ago. The U.S. was content to exchange notes. Stern old Secretary of State Cordell Hull suggested last year that an impartial arbitration commission be set up, "with authority ... to make certain that adequate and effective compensation shall promptly be paid." Mexico refused, on the ground that it was a domestic, not an international, question. There the matter still rested last week...
...Digest), the Portuguese Selacçàaos will lose money to start with. Two further ideas will increase Reader's Digest's Latin American budget: 1) a talent-scouting trip, now afield, in search of articles from Latin America (not to exceed 40% of magazine's content); 2) sponsoring free U.S. tours for Latin American writers...
...Loyal Big Bill Knudsen, who was content to be a good soldier no matter how badly things went; who never reached out for power he needed if his chief was unwilling to give it; who inspired such loyalty that any reshuffle that did not leave him out would have to leave...
...Kodak Co. last week introduced an improved method of printing color photographs direct from color transparencies. Up to now making color prints has involved three separate operations, three separate negatives, has cost the amateur about $2 per 2¼ by 3¼ in. picture. Most color photographers have been content with kodachromes, which are not prints at all but transparencies which must be held up to the light or projected on a screen to be seen...