Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, you are like the reviewer and have no predetermined feeling for or against Miss Daniels, the matter becomes more difficult-if you take your movie going seriously enough to wonder about such things. The show tries awfully hard to be a roaring, ripsnorting tale of a milk-fed, misanthropic young lady-Miss Daniels-who gets mixed up in a a war among bootleggers, hi-jackers, and revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital...
Neither, Mr. Huddleston wished to make plain, was he. "It may be a very good thing that our law be changed," he remarked sarcastically, "so that Cabinet officials may contribute something to the wisdom of the matter under discussion as well as their handsome appearance...
...trip from Udine, Italy, to Vienna on schedule in spite of the fact that we were advised not to undertake it by the Italian authorities. The plane had dual controls and one of its features is that it handles so easily you could land on a dime. As a matter of fact, one time coming down unexpectedly into a bora, as the strong winds of northern Italy are called, we landed within sixty feet. The Yankee Doodle carries ten gallons of gasoline and that gives it a range of about 475 miles...
...that would be formed by the monochromatic ether wave of the radiant energy which is liberated when hydrogen unites to form an atom of helium. Einstein's figure was reached by calculation: he reasoned that if 4 atoms of hydrogen united to form helium, a definite amount of matter would go off in the form of radiant energy. This energy, appearing in the form of a monochromatic ether wave, would give that ether wave a certain penetrating power, which could be represented by an absorption coefficient...
What the chances of the team with its influx of young blood will be against the French champions is another matter. The present titleholders are as young as their new antagonists and far more experienced, and they have beaten Tilden, still the greatest American player. Probably at least another year of tournament play will be needed to even up the odds. As for the old-timers, they have the memory of many a brilliant victory to make up for any lapse from prominence...