That books nowadays faced the fiercest competition in tlie history of the printed word since the dark ages was claimed by Mr. A. T. Donnelly in his address at the Canterbury University College Degree Day ceremony. Part of this competition, he said, came from the nervous strains and stresses of the times, and in particular it came from the radio and the cinema. ‘‘The radio and the cinema have many merits, but there are defects, they march on, they flow over the wateller or listener, they pass him by, they leave him as he was,” said Mr. Donnelly. “They stand for the triumph of the law of least effort?
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 9
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109Untitled Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 9
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