Word: contents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York last week Dr. Gordon M. Kline of the U. S. Bureau of Standards told the American Chemical Society that aviation's fire hazard could be conquered by a new kind of airplane "dope" which is noncombustible even when covered with burning gasoline. Content of the new "dope": cellulose acetate, boric acid, borax. Significance: possible revival of fabric instead of all-metal construction...
...natives of the South Sea Islands are a hardy, upright race. Their women of 85 are as vigorous as American women of 50. They have but few wrinkles on their faces, they retain their teeth and live strenuous lives. Their principal food is fish, which is rich in mineral content, the building material for the body. Expectant mothers eat raw fish...
Vitally important in a well-rounded lecture are presentation and content. Thanks to the renewed emphasis on scholarship, few Harvard lecturers last long without the latter. But it is the ability to stimulate, the extent to which a man brings into his subject the dynamics which give it significance, that make a lecture interesting. And it is precisely this ability which is being neglected today...
...second question: 'What does the imprimatur mean?' It is the right to print. It so happens that I do not only find in Father Coughlin's addresses nothing against the faith and morals but I do most heartily approve their content. It is a content based on truths which I have directed him to preach...
...years he has urged young men to look beyond the College gates and not to stagnate in the back eddy of undergraduate content. And that his words have had results is witnessed by the occupations of his friends today. Wherever men are striving hard, wherever there is action and life, "Copey's" friends are taking part, more strongly and more nobly because they are his friends...