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...rather than try to hamper radio by means other than withholding free advertising, Publisher McCormick believed the publishers should meet it with a superior product. A week earlier at the meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, he had said: ". . . We must meet science with science. . . . Newspaper editors who refuse to meet changing conditions will reach the same end that came upon carriage manufacturers, canal companies, stage coach owners. . . . The greatest expense to all of us is printing paper. The paper we use is wretched. . . . In a world of color . . . we cannot afford to plug along...
With the present system Harvard cannot hope to develop players; it is simply using the material that it is given. The sport has a large following, and it seems absurd that the lack of facilities should so hamper the development of the game and enjoyment in it. H. C. Thacher...
...weapon which the motor men were nearly agreed to use was the one which French and German cinemen have found effective: the import quota. Remained only to hit upon a figure which would be high enough not to hurt intra-European trade yet low enough to hamper...
...convinced that the detailed college entrance requirements should not operate to hamper or restrict the first three years of the secondary course. The term "exploratory" is not to connote superficiality; the secondary school should be as interested as the college in thoroughness and quality. During the last three years there is especial need for mutual understanding between secondary school and college. In my opinion this is a concern of departmental faculties as much as of headmasters, deans, and chairmen of committees on admission. These closing years of the secondary period should afford opportunity for concentration of the individual's courses...
...patents on irradiated foods. At the university he discovered a cheap method of developing vitamin D, which protects babies against rickets, in food by treating the comestibles with ultraviolet light. A dozen U. S. food manufacturers now use his process, and pay - because he refused to let business hamper his research work-royalties to the research foundation...