Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most restive was Vice Premier Nenni, who had hoped to be Premier himself. But liberal Philosopher Benedetto Croce had voiced a general opinion: "Nenni, you cannot be Premier. First, because you are Nenni; second, because you have no idea of administration." Justice Minister Togliatti seemed content to let Nenni do most of the political talking and balking. But Togliatti's Communist followers were busy, especially in the dynamic, revolutionary north. There, the leftist-dominated Committee of National Liberation, in advance of the Allied occupation, had tightly organized local government and most of the region's great industrial plants...
Some of the 52 years' work already in vested in the Cathedral stems from a concern for craftsmanship (St. John's scorns the use of steel girders, has built its own walls of solid granite). And when reproached for slowness its builders are content to recall that Chartres Cathedral took two centuries to finish. But most of St. John's delay-other than financial-involves a gigantic architectural indecision and eventual about-face. In 1911, after the choir and sanctuary had been built in heavy Romanesque, a new architect (the late Ralph Adams Cram) decided...
Using penicillin dissolved in water, treatment was gradually worked down to three hypodermic injections two hours apart. Then came the discovery, announced last year (TIME, Sept. 11), that penicillin mixed with beeswax and peanut oil is disseminated slowly through the body, keeping the penicillin content of blood high for hours. The Public Health Service acted swiftly. To 137 doctors throughout the land went instructions and the penicillin mixture with the request that they try single injections of 200,000 units (2 cc.) on as many patients as possible and report the results. Back came results on 1,060 cases: over...
...information. No cut was ever made unless the correspondent was so advised (and the correspondent could argue his case right up to the chief censor, if he liked). In general. Bracken hewed to Britain's World War I propaganda line, the only one that a wartime democracy must content itself with: providing the truth-if not always the whole truth...
Firm Steps. Up to now, Harry Truman had been content to follow his predecessor's policies, to emphasize that he stood for the same things as Mr. Roosevelt. Last week he stepped out to make some new policy...