Word: contentedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Author. Harold Stanley Ede, of London's National Gallery, Millbank, long an admirer of Gaudier's work, has done what few modern biographers are willing to do: kept himself completely out of sight. Content with reprinting Gaudier's letters, with supplying a running comment that is sympathetic but perfectly impersonal, he has achieved a biography far above the common run, which the Literary Guild did well to nominate their March choice...
...science. In life, as in the research institute, the lines break down. The municipal architect must be a jack-of-all-trades within the orbit of his particular calling, able to judge, if he cannot actually execute, work of an electrical, mechanical or artistic nature, and of very varied content, ranging from the most technical to the most theoretical. Only in projects, patterned after this approach to reality, could Dr. Dewey see relief from latter-day conflicts...
...noticeable in the field of fiction and there can hardly be said to have appeared one single novel of any great importance or significance since the first of the year. The period has produced a number of freaks and curiosities and also several books of lurid titles and erotic content such as "Naked on Roller Skates" and Mr. Hecht's "A Jew In Love." Needless to say the sales of these books have been in direct proportion to their sensationalism. An exception to this rule, however, seems to be the case with Edgar Lee Master's new de-bunking biography...
...purpose of helping the undergraduate to see the relationships between his rather theoretical work at Harvard, the life which he led before he came here, and the life which he will lead after he graduates, and to select a career in which he may be successful and content. In order to do that somewhat effectively, James Mack Swigert '30. Donald Freeman Brown '30, and I, have collected a wealth of information about what men do, how they do it, and how they reached the positions in which they do it. We have also a small, well-selected library of books...
Lest Finns think the new Prohibition commission a mere pre-election gesture President Relander finished off the week by approving a bill to increase the alcoholic content of beer from 1.6% to 2.25% by weight (2.80% by content),* sent the bill on its way to the Diet where a somewhat similar measure was defeated six weeks...