Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them. He makes no attempt to interpret the originality of his scene, but is content merely to reproduce. The reproduction, too, suffers from the immense conglomeration of detail and anecdote; in the end there is neither order nor proportion and both author and reader find themselves hopelessly confused. Mr. Brinig, in assuming the cudgel of the "local culturists" has failed exactly wherein they failed a decade...
...fortunes and with about one million circulation. (It had been bought from the Collier estate by Crowell Publishing Co.) Then came evil days?a business depression, a paper shortage, a printers' strike. For a few weeks the magazine actually failed to appear. By 1922 Collier's, definitely inferior in content, had tumbled to th place in general magazine advertising. In two years its revenues fell off more than 80%. Making matters worse, into the 5f field came Liberty...
Philosophers, theologians, sociologists and others dealing with the affairs of men may derive despair from the uncertainty of past as well as of future. Physicists are for the present content. Statistical studies of average group action have helped them to probe marvelously deep into Nature...
...reason to think that the Communist International will succeed as the mouthpiece of infallible truth where the great Roman Catholic Church has failed. . . . No believer that tolerance, liberty and the scientific rather than the dogmatically religious approach to problems are essential to the good life can be content with Communism however keenly he may appreciate some of its benefits...
...Such firms as the general Electric company, the Dupont company, and others can afford to give a scientist every possible comfort without even threatening him with a special task. He is not bothered with lectures and tutoring but works to his heart's content in the most theoretical fields. This is a taint of commercialism non the less: it is also a form of advertising on the part of the company, and depletes the university faculties. In this class come institutes endowed by millionaires for special advanced study, valuable as they may be to science, as they rarely hand knowledge...