Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of thse "borderline cases" come to college because of family pressure, or because it is "the thing to do." Once in, a small percentage manage to meet the relatively easy three C and a D requirement of the University: often by extensive use of the tutoring schools. This group of individuals, either because it is too lazy to use its own brains, or because it lacks the ability to cope with college problems, does not belong in an institute of higher learning. Many of these men possess fine ability along other lines, and should be prevented from wasting this...
...thing, newspapermen as a class don't get leaves of absence. They either get fired or they take sick and die. For another thing, she has picked the wrong the kind of people to go to Harvard reporters, editorial writers, special writers. Obviously the people who could use a spell at Harvard are the publishers of papers, not the employees. Go into any newspaper office and you'll find it teeming with Harvard men, most of whom need not another term at Cambridge, but a dollar and a half to get their shirts back from the laundry. These employees...
There is no practical reason now for harnessing the sun's energy. But should the problem become urgent, because of depletion of the earth's supply of coal and oil, it would be possible to use huge shallow tanks of water and carbon dioxide for solar power plants if a catalyst as good as or better than chlorophyll could be found. Meanwhile Dr. Baly is considered in many quarters to be the world's leader in artificial photosynthesis of organic substances...
...rests squarely and unavoidably upon the licensee. . . . Licenses are granted without any compensation by the licensee to the Government and solely for the puroose of serving the public interest, and, hence, the broadcaster must accept, along with the privilege granted, a definite, inescapable and high public trust in the use of the facilities licensed...
...drama puts its audiences through a workout. For him who is willing to do his part, filling in the lives of the chief characters and standing in their shoes, there is infinite pleasure. Color the piquancy of Frances Farmer, the skillful directorial use of the melodramatic cloak, the haunting refrain of the title song, and the character performances of Oscar Homolka and Barry Fitzgerald play innumerable variations on the Central theme. No matter how low a man may descend, while there is grace in his soul he need not be living in vain...