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Although the words "liberal" and "democrat" are becoming more and more meaningless, they are the only adjectives that can adequately describe the character and work of Louis Brandeis. For this man throughout his career has been a fighter for the democratic ideal. Never content with a single triumph, he realized that the only safeguard of democracy was eternal vigilance. And this idea prompted his unceasing opposition to the forces of reaction, as his background so well illustrates...
...theory that safety is a meaningless word unless all the hazards are properly understood. Air Facts has undertaken, to report every 30 days full details and "assumptions" concerning every private flying crash of serious consequence in the U.S. Last week Air Facts presented its score for this year's first nine months: 175 pilots and passengers killed in 109 accidents, 81.7% due directly to pilot mistake or faulty judgment. It found only 4.6% due to structural failure. More than half the accidents resulted from stalls (failure to maintain minimum flying speed), mostly during low altitude acrobatics (in which, comments...
...types of consumers in all sorts of communities. Fully 70% of them were not getting any form of relief, although their average income was$471 a year. The middle third of 13,000,000 averaged $1,076; the top third, just under $3,000-but this was a meaningless figure because of the tremendous range of income included. If the total estimated income of $59,983,000,000 were divided equally, the average would be $1,622 per family, $1,151 per individual...
...educational hullabaloo about intellectual and social guidance is meaningless to the average Freshman. And unless reformers look at every dimension of the real figure, their efforts are mere words. In trying to uplift the personal element in education to its rightful place beside the academic, they have tended to forget the major point that ultimately the result of college training depends upon the undergraduate. It is he who must make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily...
...dull explosion, and quickly the large rooms filled with dense, choking vapors. There was a horrified silence; then an impotent, gesticulating circle formed around a stiff figure with eyes wrinkled shut in agony, with face glistening from chemicals which had geysered up. The stricken one uttered low, meaningless cries,--obviously it was shock...