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Chafee himself considered his major work the drafting of the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934. Although his interest in civil rights developed as a by-product of his more technical legal work, it was in the defense of free expression that Chafee achieved national prominence...
...by-product of helping underdeveloped areas, the establishment of a worldwide trading corporation centered in and operated by Western Europe could spark the sagging economics of industrial European states by opening up for them new markets and sources of raw materials. In addition, cooperative economic aid activity in Western Europe would bind even more closely together the countries of the North Atlantic area, enhancing that solidarity which is the most potent obstacle to Red political inroads in Western Europe. It might also reduce the fierce export rivalries between the nations of Western Europe...
...publication in the fall. Though he is active politically, Schlesinger does not believe that the historian as such affects society appreciably. "The Primary motive of the historian is curiosity," he believes, "and his greatest contribution to society is in satisfying that curiosity in others. Anything else is merely a by-product. The historian does not change society so much as he reflects...
...which he urged President Roosevelt to initiate research on a nuclear weapon. Despite his pacifism, the scientist had faith in the fundamental good sense of man to use his discoveries wisely. He believed that in the long run the atomic bomb would be only an incidental by-product of Relativity. And the world, as it mourns Albert Einstein today, can do nothing more worthy than to make sure that his vision becomes a reality...
...what Zinsser would have called that last "step across to accomplished discovery." Unlike their predecessors, they had used human skin tissue-instead of nerve tissue-on which to grow the disease. Original as their final step may have been, the three associates regard their success as the by-product of all previous work and research in a field of skin culture that dates at least...