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Already on its feet with a freshman Open House last Sunday, Phillips Brooks House is counting on a year of continuing expansion--more men involved in volunteer service work, better contacts with the local social agencies served, and as a by-product of its upped manpower better "quality" in all the work that is performed...
Radioactive iodine, which has now been shown to be effective in curing disease, is a by-product of nuclear chain-reacting "piles," used to manufacture the materials for atomic bombs. There are many such piles now in operation, all under Army direction. Up to the present, the Army has been unable to release the radioactive by-products of the piles for medical or research purposes. Any one of the existing piles produces more than enough radioactive iodine in one day's operation to treat every sufferer from Graves' disease in the country. At present, all such radioactive materials are stored...
...atomic-energy by-product (radioactive sodium) is being used to study blood circulation. Drs. Myron Prinzmetal and Eliot Corday of Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital inject the sodium into a patient's veins, place a Geiger counter over the heart, record the appearance of the tagged blood on a special machine. Their method, they reported, spots enlarged hearts sooner than any other...
...survey in question originated a year ago as a by-product of a trip that TIME'S advertising director, Harry Phillips, made to England (A Letter From the Publisher, May 19, 1947). He went there to examine postwar business conditions and to talk to exporters about advertising in TIME Inc.'s overseas editions. He found, to everyone's astonishment, that in all the decades of trading between Britain and the U.S., no real effort had been made by either country to discover the requirements and attitudes of American retail stores toward British goods. In other words...
...must first of all be asserted that the freedom to do as you wish at Harvard--the freedom to work as you will and to relax as you will without the fear of becoming the sort of outcast that is always the unfortunate by-product of cohesive groups--this freedom cannot be abridged without injuring one of the College's oldest and best attributes. William James, writing about Harvard students in the first decade of this century, said that "When they come to Harvard, it is not primarily because she is a club. It is because they have heard...