Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since Rumor spread the word that the morning departure was to be made at the unprecedentedly early hour of 7.45 o'clock, local dopesters have been put to it to explain why the leaders of learning should content themselves with 15 minutes of House breakfast in the could grey dawn to reach the field of a battle scheduled on the Elis' Jayvee diamond, for the tardy hour of 3.30 o'clock. Nor have the few statement vouchsafed by officials gone far to clarify the situation...
...crass outsider did not comprehend this Latin irony, the Cambridge Union was cosily content. Soon with even heavier irony a Cambridge lightweight rose to defend Chicago. Small, spindly Debater Robert Egerton Swartwout (he weighs 105 Ib.) boomed out in an amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride...
...Jackson was seeking to measure the fructose content of inulin. He found it to be 92%. Then he wondered what constituted the 8% residue. He easily recognized 3% as glucose. Patient work with chemicals and a polariscope discovered the three new kinds of fruit sugar in the remaining...
When Yale went in for expansion, endowments, and publicity, it was not content to build ordinary buildings that with common efficiency would carry out the functions for which they were intended. Under the Yale hand, a chemistry laboratory became a Hampton Court palace; a gymnasium became a Norman Cathedral, well fortified from all access of light; fraternity houses and senior-society tombs were built as Attic temples, Saracenic strongholds. Tudor mansions, Venetian palaces, and sacred edifices of the classical revival. Every minor building became other-wordly, enchanting in its antique quaintness, its cumbersome and happy extravagance. The donors were tickled...
City Streets (Paramount). Critics may some day, examining the gangster films of 1931, find them significant as perpetuations of a culture which the more self- conscious art-expressions of the day have rejected. For here, in realistic terms, brutalized in content and set going at a breathless pace, are stories and people that are Victor Hugo's stepchildren, many of them highly likeable and articulated with fine ingenuity. In this picture, why does Sylvia Sidney tie her arm in a black sling when her father telephones her to meet him on the corner "if she has to break...