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Word: fasters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central thesis of Malthus, that population tends naturally to increase faster than the means of subsistence, is accepted by every scholar and is easily demonstrable to all who grant the soundness of the elementary theorems of arithmetic. We can raise the saturation point of the earth in terms of population by new discoveries, as heat raises the saturation point of water in terms of various salts. But since we can neither enlarge our universe nor emigrate from it, we can never abrogate the law of population by such means, if prolific Nature is allowed full sway. We are trapped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control Must Accompany Civilization's Further Advance | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...Before Thursday's experiment, of course, stationary pictures were broadcast for long distances, but this is the first time that moving pictures, of moving objects, have been seen over the wires. Television consists in rapidly transmitting still pictures, in speeding up the picture at least 100 times faster than would be necessary to transmit a stationary object or picture. The picture is produced by the passing of a bright light over a screen. Up to this time, and even now, the great difficulty in broadcasting moving objects has been brought about by a lack of intense light. Until a means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAFFEE SEES FUTURE IN NEW TELEVISION | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...their inaccurate perspective and narrowness, are not only typical of youth but also serve a very definite purpose in life. They concentrate all their energies on one point. It is like bringing the waters of a wide stream together in a narrow channel where it will flow faster Vividness, emotion, intensity, these are all products of concentration on a single point. When we survey things from a distance in a more nearly proper perspective, we find it harder to be moved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Old Dog" Answers Critics of Modern Youth--Believes Undergraduates of Today Keener Than Their Fathers | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...wholesale without knowing what college means and without being able to reap the rewards of college. The phase is temporary but it is real. In order to carry the college through it without serious harm to the curriculum, ideals, and standards and at the same time to satisfy and faster the development of the intermediate group referred to above the Junior College is both useful and necessary. The four year arts college and the Junior College can exist side by side each meeting the educational demands of contemporary American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR PALMER OVERLOOKS | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

...Getting money and getting education are of first importance. The colored man . . . is getting it [education]-many people in the South say-faster than the white people. Intelligence is a misfortune to anybody, but especially to a colored person. If you do not know what is going on, a sort of fundamentalist, you are safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Persistence | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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