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...scarcely the son of his father", Lord Randolph Churchill, then at the peak of his Parliamentary career. Young Churchill was careless with the school's traditions, which have the flexibility of the Swiss Alps. His marks were only middling and he disliked the classics, then the sine qua non of Harrovian scholarship...
Some of these manufacturers have got rid of their button-sewing machines, would have to retool if slide fasteners were cut off. Some of them make products (like trick keycases, children's snowsuits, etc.) to which slide fasteners were a sine qua non. To replace all fasteners would, Talon estimates, take 1,300,000,000 buttons a year-and on Arthur's desk were orders from companies he had never heard of before, which wanted fasteners because they were already having trouble getting enough buttons...
...workers and represents only 125 independent companies, most of them very small. But quite apart from the crucial 15% of its production that goes to defense, its demise would leave a colossal gap in the U.S. economy-through its 5,000-odd normal customers. Die castings are a sine qua non of hundreds of consumer goods from zippers to outboard motors, from clocks to vacuum cleaners, from fire extinguishers to drug dispensers, from an essential small piston rod for automobiles to a whole radiator grille...
...think Leopold Stokowski is kidding himself if he believes that Fantasia and others like it will be a means of bringing music to the masses. Music can be brought to the people only qua music. Diluting it, making it palatable with a sideshow, only takes attention away from it, and defeats its purpose. Certainly it cannot deepen the appreciation of music. Another point: If people get used to the glittery, theatrical quality of "Fantasound," the way it is projected from various wings in order to heighten effect, their ears are liable to be spoiled for natural musical sounds. But this...
...among the lower income groups of the population, particularly in the rural areas, that collective medicine finds its most crying need. While state hospitals and charitable institutions have made enormous strides in the past, more frequent medical care in virtually every part of the country is a sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse...