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...find fungicides that would not hurt the crops. During the past decade the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Yonkers, N. Y.) has experimented with almost all the standard elements, but farmers still rely chiefly on compounds of sulphur, mercury and copper. Since 1921 crops have been dusted with poison from airplanes. This is the most perilous branch of commercial aviation...
...mentality." Says Smith, "Mr. Eliot is far too urbane to express his disapproval in such Miltonic terms," but he too carries on a "deft, inconspicuous sniping," has mentioned Dryden as being "far below Shakespeare, and even below Milton." "Note," cries vigilant Defender Smith, "the tiny drop of poison in the phrase . . . 'even Milton...
...hard to see what justification there can be for this policy, No one denies that the issues raised at such meetings are controversial, for all political and economic questions in so far as they are not trivial are necessary controversial. But open controversy is not a subtle poison from which the untutored public should be protected. On the contrary, the widest possible dissemination of conflicting viewpoints, together with all available accurate information, is a prerequisite for the growth of enlightened public opinion. Harvard can provide that prerequisite and it is is its duty as a democratic institution...
...British experts believed in the possibility of mass gas attacks wiping out whole cities. Few believed that Germany has discovered any new, unprecedentedly lethal gas. The familiar poison gases, against which Britons were warned, are the following...
...which the Student Union suspects him. Despite his extended absence from the research laboratory, President Conant is still recognized as one of the outstanding scientific experts in the country. The Student Union has never been shy to point out his connection with the development of a fool-proof poison gas. At this time, when material aid from this country is necessary to keep England going, some agency to coordinate scientific progress on the two sides of the ocean is required. The Government seems to feel that President Conant is a fit man to fulfill this function...