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...advertising, has little to gain by the merger, save to clear its cluttered field of one element of competition, and speed the swing of public taste away from the Victorian "genteel literary magazine" toward the virile, provocative medium for present-day skeptics. The joint title, Forum & Century will not affect its tactics while Editor Henry Goddard Leach remains...
...ExperimentaI cancer in rats and mice is quite different from cancer in humans. Agents which will cure, or apparently cure, rodent cancer, will not necessarily affect human cancer. But from observation of rodent reactions, pathologists hope to get clues to human reactions...
This is permitted under the "Escape Clause," "Safeguard Clause," "Contingent Clause" or "Escalator Clause" (as it is variously called) of the Treaty. It renders the reduction (or limitation') clauses of the Treaty non-binding and purely voluntary. It does not affect the clauses fixing the ratios to be maintained among the U. S., Britain and Japan, for if one of these takes the "escalator" up the others are allowed to follow proportionally...
...Declared President Hoover of the yet untabulated 1929 income tax collections: "The result is most gratifying. The unfavorable developments of last fall did not affect individual incomes to the extent feared. . . . Tax reduction was fully justified. . . . We should be able to close the year with a very moderate surplus. . . . The situation clearly calls for the most rigid economy...
...fancy a doctor for a wife; he asked her to give up her studies so that she could accompany him on his travels. In Rome Mme Carlu began to paint, with the enthusiastic approval of her husband. But he would not let her go to art school, lest it affect her individuality...