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...purpose is to get its writers' names and works into print, the editors cannot be justly censured for having no higher ambition. The quality of much of what they print, however, indicates that they neither aspire to be read as is the Saturday Evening Post, nor do they love filler. Admittedly students indulge in literary activities only for their own pleasure, and if in the long month of January the demand which a strict code of literary merit makes upon the undergraduate editors is so great that it destroys their pleasure in their work, and their standing in the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTHER ADVOCATE | 6/15/1932 | See Source »

Critical observers frequently deprecate the amazing regularity with which this column is filled; they incline to the belief that the "News" resorts to editorial space-filler at times. May we merely suggest that we uphold no tradition to turn out a definite number of words each day and that we are not devoted to the publication of insignificant ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Samson Fixed His Columns His Hair Was Shorn | 3/8/1932 | See Source »

...therefore nude of any identification and the bewilderment of the local Fish Pier employe who brought it into my office was so genuine and so humorous that I decided to work it into a space-filler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1930 | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...Defauw and the Orchestra of the Brussels Royal Conservatory (Columbia, $6)-A vigorous, forthright reading of Bach's most popular orchestral suite. A sombre Corelli saraband is played by Enrique Fernandez Arbós and the Madrid Symphony as filler for the last record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Synthetic resins (like Zalmite) are basically a chemical synthesis of phenol (carbolic acid), formaldehyde and some form of nitrogen. Wood flour is used as a filler. Zalmite is rendered light and porous by sending a blast of air through the soft uncast material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faster Trees, Strong Straws | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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