Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that I violated an old Cambridge ordinance forbidding free distribution of printed matter on the streets. I wanted to know whether the law was a dead letter or a threat over the heads of radicals. If the former, I thought it should be repealed; if the latter, I wanted the public to know...
...Legion of Honor for his invention of a wireless receiver for submerged submarines. Last week's prize of $46,299 was awarded for his theory of wave mechanics in the problem of atomic constituion. Roughly and as elaborated by other researches, the Due de Broglie's theory is that matter consists of a series of waves as well as of corpuscles...
Then there is the college-musical or "Good News" type of film, of which "Sweetie"--where the action, as a matter of fact, takes place in a prep school, though the films have little interest in the difference--is considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson...
...roads leading to and from the Cambridge Stadium will be carefully patrolled Friday night and Saturday by State police and inspectors of the Registry of Motor Vehicles. The State constabulary of Connecticut are also cooperating in this matter to apprehend any wild driver that may be found on the road between New Haven and Cambridge...
...require nearly 1,000 additional rooms for undergraduates in order to supply them with proper housing and we should need to proceed in this matter even though we did not enter upon the so-called House Plan...