Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food. The minimum amount of food per day for one person includes "one ounce each of high-fat-content biscuits [crackers], condensed milk, chocolate and butterfat." Standard lifeboat provisions include Energy Tablets, each containing 5 milligrams of either metherdrine or amphetamine (stimulating drugs), which should be used only in emergencies. The pamphlet adds: "It may be dangerous to drop off to sleep . . . because the risk of drowning is thereby increased...
Lockheed and Welles parted amicably. They had also a difference-over the dramatic and commercial content of the shows. But both agreed that this was purely philosophical and friendly...
Although Rubberman O'Neil seems content to let the Yankee Network alone while his company, now 90% devoted to war goods, works out its war contracts, his post-war radio plans are more active. He sees the network's 6,000,000 Yankee listeners as customers for General Tire in a boom to follow the war. Said he : "New England is a cross section of the best in America. It has everything-big cities, small cities, agricultural areas. . . . And New England people pay their bills-promptly. . . . We do hope to bring to the network some of the spirit...
There are at least two false criteria which are confusing us in this attempt: the identification of liberal education with content rather than method, and the measure of value in terms of abstruseness. It is a mistake to believe that literature or philosophy are essentially more "liberal subjects" than science or math. Perhaps the greatest tragedy of education today is the cleavage between science and "the humanities." We have no more Leonardos or Goethes. Anyone who has studied the history of science, or read Whitehead or Eddington can testify to their superior value as general training for the mind, over...
Everts took top scoring honors for the day, with three goals and an equal number of assists. George "Dick" Harding, Crimson scoring leader, had to be content with a single goal and three assists...