Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a French window-was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter hitched to accelerator-was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player, and John Good. Another GM development for 1933 is a regulator to adjust the spark to the octane-content of gasoline, to ensure complete combustion, avert "knocking." For 1933 there is one development which may assume the importance of 1932's Free-Wheeling: Bendix and Studebaker say, "This is the Power Brake Year...
...with hard-boiled sentimentality. Onetime dramatic critic, publisher, copywriter, editor, she has done a good deal for her 36 years in a man's world. Brought up among ships in Yorkshire's Whitby (her grandfather, George Galilee, was a shipowner) she longed to build them, had to content herself with listening to tall seafaring tales. After graduating from Leeds University, she worked in the British Museum on her Master's thesis, Modern...
Hearings over, the committee pondered its course. Representatives of California vintners wanted naturally fermented wine included in H. R. 13,312. Such a proposal the committee rejected (14-to-9) for two reasons: 1) the alcoholic content of wine cannot be precisely controlled as in beer; 2) inclusion of wine would reduce to an absurdity the committee's contention that what the bill authorized fell outside the 18th Amendment as non-intoxicants in fact. Finally the Ways & Means made liquor history by voting 17-to-7 to report the Collier Bill to the House with these conclusions...
...American named Dietrick Lamade (pronounced Lam'-a-dy). It is a weekly?"America's Greatest Family Newspaper"?of 14 pages plus fiction supplement, aimed carefully at the smalltown family. In makeup it looks as the Christian Science Monitor might look if the Monitor were checkered with pictures. In content it is a strange combination of newspaper, magazine section, almanac, mail order catalog...
...this glow causes excess radiation of body heat, reduces the temperature. Hot drinks help promote sleep; those containing alcohol may do so if stimulation is absent or has subsided. The hypnotic action of beer is due in part to the lupulin of the hops rather than to the alcohol content...