Word: existing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...more interesting aspects of the Boston survey, conducted by the Bureau for the Mayor's Street Traffic Advisory Board, was a study of sidewalk saturation, made to determine. If possible, an index to sidewalk width in relation to pedestrian volume. It was found that sidewalk convenience ceased to exist at 800 pedestrians per foot of sidewalk width per hour...
...Congress is ready to consider and adopt legislation to carry out the Administration's recommendations for more adequate law enforcement machinery, those whose duty it is to enforce the law will be able to accomplish more. . . . Determined and unceasing pressure from the President for enforcement. . . . Such deficiencies as exist . . . are not due to lack of will . . . either at the top or the bottom...
Doctors sometimes call a benign tumor a cancer. Other times they do not recognize a cancer until after the patient's death. The ratio of incorrect diagnoses is 10%. Every suspected case of cancer in a community should be referred to a central cancer bureau such as exist in Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia. So recommended Dr. James Ewing, Manhattan cancer specialist, last week. Those bureaus have clinical and pathological experts who review a cancer diagnosis before the surgeon operates or a radiologist burns away the excrescent tissues. Thus they can prevent many a useless operation, much needless suffering...
...college men of this generation are not intelligent or mature or serious enough to be allowed the traditional Harvard liberty, and is trying what seems to me a desperate measure to introduce from above some measure of homogeneity and continuity into college life which undoubtedly does not today exist...
What will classical students do to assure this. There seems to exist a natural element of conservatism among classics faculties which frown on any attempt to "vulgarize" the classics, but we wonder if this "vulgarization" is not the very thing that will be needed more and more...