Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Cheap Light...
...recent paragraph titled "Cheap Light" (TIME, Dec. 1) you, unwittingly of course, committed an injustice against our product: Lyter-life-a synthetic, emulsified fuel for lighters. You assert, apropos of a German-made product, that similar fuels "have not been wholly successful in the U. S." This statement is, however, definitely belied by our ascending sales curve on Lyterlife...
...biochemistry at Cambridge University, correcting worldwide reports that he had said Belgium was suffering from a return of the medieval "Black Death." Coincidence. Experts of the French Army were busy last week at Lille (80 mi. from the stricken Meuse Valley) producing enormous clouds of what they called "a cheap, harmless artificial fog made from chalk, sulphuric acid and tar products which will be extremely useful to hide the movements of troops in war time...
...years. Out of Dr. Flexner's surveys of U. S. education came last month a book * that roused to ire many a U. S. college dean. His thesis: that U. S. universities are inferior in most ways to those of England, France, Ger many, that they "have needlessly cheap ened", vulgarized and mechanized them selves ... a wild, uncontrolled, and un critical expansion has taken place." The true university, says he, must be a living organism, devoted to the pursuit of knowledge courses." and Law culture, and not to medicine "endless alone among special professional studies would Dr. Flexner retain...
...good shooting preserves to 2,500,000 acres. They recommended that the farmer be protected from lawless hunters, be amply rewarded for his work.* Quail, pheasants, Hungarian partridge, rabbits, squirrels all thrive on the farmer's cultivated land. Other game lives better in forests, wildernesses, land which is cheap enough to be maintained as public hunting grounds. The committee advised that public ownership of these lands be extended as fast as possible, that Game Administration & Management be made a profession like Forestry or Agriculture. The Game Conference approved the Leopold committee's plan. It also: adopted a resolution...