Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profit and personal gain! Some discoveries must from their nature be patented, but they should not be handed over to individuals or institutions to enrich an individual or a corporation. Further, such taking out of patents discourages free interplay and cooperation between scientists and makes improvement and progress a difficult thing. No legal barrier should stand in the way of human welfare, scientific knowledge, or general enlightenment...
...legal reasoning, Judge Wheat was glad to recall that President Roosevelt, when he signed the Retirement Act, had declared: "Decision on this bill has been difficult. . . . [It is] still crudely drawn and requires many changes and amendments at the next session of Congress...
...especially scientific facts, are the most untruthful things there are." That is going a bit further than Kant, though like Kant, Mr. Chase does find truths at last in moral judgments. Lord Bacon went wrong because, though he had a scientific education, he had no moral education. It is difficult here to avoid making a debater's point, and suggesting to Mr. Chase that Alcibiades had a very humanistic, moral education...
...tendency in recent years for the majority of students to secure undergraduate instruction under the Division rather than at the School. Since Mr. McKay had insisted that elementary as well as advanced courses were offered under the terms of his $3,000000 fund, however, the University has found it difficult to meet the situation...
...Hopkins' Professor Harvey Brinton Stone was cautiously vague last winter when he let it be known that he was successfully transplanting human thyroid and parathyroid tissue by new methods (TIME, Dec. 18). More sure of his methods this year, Professor Stone has been publishing the details of this difficult surgical procedure in the Annals of Surgery. By last week, when he was asked to tell the American College of Surgeons (see p. 35) what he was doing, he had achieved sufficient boldness to pack his whole story into a few simple sentences. Said...