Word: content
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clearly set up in the case of blackstrap?a by-product of molasses and cane sugar, used chiefly for making industrial alcohol. The present duty on blackstrap is about ¼¢ per gallon. The new duty would average between 1¼¢ and 2¢ per gallon, depending upon the sugar content. Farm groups forced this increase on the Ways & Means Committee by the argument that a higher levy on this imported article would turn the alcohol manufacturers to domestic corn as a base for their product...
...salability, the Eastman tinting is described as giving scenes ''colors conforming to their emotional content." Two makes of talkies (R.C.A. and Western Electric) have their sound records on the edges of the films. Hitherto, if a film was tinted it interfered with light passing through the sound track, distorted the sound. Experiments were made with tinting only the visual portion of the film. The method was successful, but expensive. Then efforts were bent to securing tints that would not affect the light passing through the sound record. This has been achieved so that there is hardly any perceptible...
...Canton News, was shot down in his back yard one evening as he was putting his car away. It was vengeance from the underworld, against which Mellett had been crusading in his newspaper. The journalistic world rang with the news. The U. S. press was not content that two of Editor Mellett's murderers should be given life sentences and two condemned to 20 years in prison. At the suggestion of a journalist, Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of the Press, started a campaign for a Don Mellett Memorial Fund. Journalists were asked to contribute; laymen were invited...
...next contention of the CRIMSON seems to spring from a difference of opinion concerning the purpose of a debate. The writer of the editorial evidently considers debating to be a game, in which victory is the raison d' etre. The members of the Debating Council hold a different, and I believe more mature view. They believe that the content of the debate, and not the decision, is of prime importance, and that debating finds its justification in the opportunity which it offers the college man to express his own, individual opinion on questions of public interest...
Under changed conditions of University life debating has necessarily lost much of its former prestige. With the passing of the Debating Union it is clear that undergraduate interest in debating has grown noticably weaker. While debating at Harvard must content itself with a limited field, it is all the more desirable that good management make the most of the remaining opportunities...