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...complaint that things can't be run on air is thoroughly exploded. Chemists have for years been making some most important compounds out of the raw material of air. "Free" oxygen and nitrogen in the air, for instance, can be "fixed" by a gigantic electric arc into nitric oxide, from which nitric acid and nitrates (valuable fertilizers) are made...
...picturesque campus incident has brought to light a widespread complaint on the part of British "university men" against the Americanization of Canada's colleges. They point, for example, to the Greek letter fraternities, which in the last 20 years have enjoyed a mushroom growth at Toronto, McGill, etc. Oxford and Cambridge afford no precedents for such silly, bourgeois performances, say the university men. In fact, the whole of Canadian university life, they say, is unpleasantly infected with the American extra-curriculum...
...Indian was generally the scullion." Thus one realizes that the present day quasi-barbaric dish is ineradicably rooted in hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote of us that. "There was much complaint about the quality of the food and cookery," and in 1791 it is reported by another chronicler that "diluted milk" was served, and that students desirous of postponing the examinations of the following day, "put a tartar emetic in the coffee boilers." It is quite evident that there have been grounds...
...complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission against the Radio Corporation of America, alleging a monopoly in the radio business (TIME, Feb. 4), was answered in a preliminary way by General James G. Harbord, President of the Radio Corporation. He declared that not only was his company ready to open its books for a complete review of its status and activities, but that it had already done so to representatives of the Federal Trade Commission...
Ringing the bell is an exact science. "I ring it on the hour and the minute, and as near as possible on the second," said Mr. Conant, "I've been on the job going on thirteen years, never missed a day, and never had a complaint on the bell being wrong. Two-thirds of the students and professors come to me for the right time, and most of the clocks in the square are set by the bell...