Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added virtue: all the stresses are uniform...
Princess Marthe Bibesco is a civilized European. But Princess Bibesco thinks Egypt mysterious. That land of monuments and tombs makes her feel a little uncomfortable. Says she: "We are not very civilized, people of little value, of few possibilities, content to put handles of silver on the coffins of our great men and then believe we have made fools of ourselves over them." Egyptian Day is a notebook: that is to say, there is little padding...
...feel perfectly tranquil and safe among this mass of workers,"* mildly observed Il Duce, no longer ravenous and raving, last week to 150,000 workmen in a third and placid speech at Milan?the speech of a man who has dined and is content. ". . . It is unnecessary to recount what the Fascist Government has done for labor. We think of your interests, all your needs, because we love you as workers and fellow-Italians. Today's feast of labor shows how the regime respects labor and the workers...
...will master the fundamentals of sufficient subject fields to make him actually prepared for college. But the college naturally does not leave this to chance or theory. The college does not wish and is not equipped to do secondary school work. The candidate must prove his attainment through the content of the subject. Difficulty arises from the circumstance that we are so highly departmentalized both in school and in college. It is not always easy for the secondary teacher to remember that he is teaching whole boys and girls, not subjects! The college teacher, in deciding where the division shall...
...Knopf who justifiably claims to have made many a good book popular, and to have raised typographic and material standards in American book manufacture. Concurring with him were E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., Frederick A. Stokes, Scribner's, G. P. Putnam's Sons. These and others were content to say that they had no intention of joining the stampede. Mr. Knopf, who has given the matter much thought, said further...