Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their past records. In the 440, there is, above all, Yale's flash Launcelot Ross who won the quarter against Pennsylvania in 48 seconds, for a new Yale record. When a man gets down to 48 seconds, he can't be left out of any dope sheet no matter what the meet may be. Other good men seem to be Engle, a Yale sophomore, and the trio who raced each other last Saturday in the Dartmouth, Colgate, Syracuse meet. I mean Barbuti, of Syracuse. Swope of Dartmouth, and Roll of Colgate. All were in the finals of last year...
...More Matter. The physicists are creeping up on the origin of matter. Dr. Robert Andrew Millikan of the California Institute of Technology, pursuing his study of the cosmic ray, has illuminated new chapters in the celestial life of the hydrogen atom. Those infinitely tiny but infinitely active particles not only leap at each other explosively to form helium, but also by special jumps unite to form oxygen and nitrogen. The exact nature of the jump is not yet fully understood, but each different jump shoots off its own private signal, a ray of definite power...
...into the largest and perhaps the most blatant exhibit at the convention. Huge electric signs gleamed: "CHAMPION OF THE WORLD," "WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER." Printed matter told how the Tribune had licked Mayor Thompson & friends; how, because of the Tribune, "Chicago can again walk proudly among the cities!-and the class in advertising may now step up and learn a lesson from the politicians...
Author Macaulay, brought up in Italy, by the sea, now lives and writes in London. Somewhat annoyed that her publishers required further publicity matter than her creditable list of novels (Potterism, Told By An Idiot, Orphan Island) she answered in regard to hobbies: "I don't keep rabbits or collect stamps in these days...
Conditions as they really are in such cases can never be determined to the agreement of everybody concerned. Largely depending on the newspapers be reads, the American who interests himself at all in such matters can form an opinion only on grounds which are stoutly denied by the other side. Politicians and members of the enlightened upper crust of Filipino society make large claims of their ability to manage their own affairs, while the Administration forces maintain that the bulk of the people are not sufficiently advanced for such a move. Imperialism, no matter how a country begins upon...