Word: content
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pointed out the distinction between "undernourishment, or deficiency in calorie intake, and malnutrition, or deficiency in proteins, vitamins, and minerals," remarking that the more vital problem is to maintain the quality of the national diet, especially in regard to vitamin content, in order to "promote vigor, resistance to disease, and a high morale...
...content a gourmet and good diner...
Most violinists were content to let him keep his unplayable piece to himself. Not so Louis Krasner. This bald, soft-spoken Boston fiddler had already won sympathetic cheers for fighting his way through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this new challenge, Krasner sent for Schönberg's piece and started in on it. For thankless months he sawed, plucked and stabbed away at its impossible chords and tuneless, jittery rhythms. "It was six months." said he, "before I began to understand...
...Before World War II Western sugar-beet farmers were content to import European seeds for each year's crop. It was cheaper than paying U. S. labor to gather their own. Foreseeing a shortage, Oregon beet farmers planted 1,000 acres of seed for 1940 harvest, nearly doubled the acreage for 1941. It has been a profitable operation. Selling at 7½? a lb., beet seed nets Oregonians a neat $125 an acre...
Dean Sperry said that instruction in the Divinity School continues to be predominantly historical in its content and method. "Theology as the 'queen of the Sciences' no longer enjoys its ancient and unique position. In liberal seminaries it in supplemented, if not supplemented, by academic disciplines which have an independent status in the world of secular concerns. These disciplines are variously psychological, philosophical, sociological, aesthetic, and historical. In this School we have deliberately stressed the historical approach to the study of religion, at the cost of emphasis upon other approaches. The result is a curriculum which is confessedly over-developed...