Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in England, he immediately became both a prosperous vicar by joining with the winners in the Restoration struggle and a polygamist by acquiring yet another wife. (The second Mrs. Eaton was still in Virginia as security for his unpaid bills.) But, though past 60, Eaton was not content with his income and ran deeply into debt. After attempting to bribe his creditor's agent and being proved quilty of perjury, the dapper little popinjay was dragged off to King's Bench Prison at Southwark. There his incessant demands for scholastic and clerical privileges fell on deaf ears; and, within...
...scientists experimented with dogs, gave some of them injections of anterior pituitary extract until their islets were worn out and their insulin content very low. Then they fed one set of animals a normal diet. Set No 2 got no food for several days. Set No. 3 got only fats. Set No. 4 got insulin and a normal amount of carbohydrates. Results: the first group developed severe diabetes; the others soon returned to normal insulin production and good health. Fasting and fat-feeding, as well as insulin injections, said the doctors, "allow the pancreatic islets to rest," give them time...
Crimson yachtsmen were unable to cope with the high wind on the Charles River Basin yesterday, and were forced to be content with third place behind M.I.T. and Princeton in the Quadrangular Regatta for the Jack Wood Trophy...
...environment is absorbed, digested, into the totality of his artistic experience. In Berlioz, as in any romantic composer, it is the mood of the moment, the specific, particular emotion which goes into the notes. In Mozart, any individual emotion has the effect of a deepened tingle to the entire content of the music. His music fulfills an old ideal of classicism, one which might be stated as the ideal of expressing all emotions while seeming to express no particular...
Solar observations made at the Harvard weather station include measurement of the intensity of solar radiation on a horizontal plane and on a plane perpendicular to the sun's rays, and also study of the dust and moisture content of the atmosphere...