Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts make this possible: 1) Mayor Walker's buffoonery is shrewdly directed; 2) New York, despite its turbulent subway problem, gets along somehow no matter who is mayor or where...
...form: ". . . The Council of the League, having before it a request from the Czechoslovak, Jugoslav and Rumanian Governments and having learned from the press that the Hungarian Government is going to sell the objects to which the request refers, thinks it would be prudent to delay this project, the matter involved coming before the Council in a few days...
...alumni desire to present to the University an adequate sum of money for the building of the University chapel, the same should be accepted and that 'whether or not such a chapel shall be in memory of the Harvard men who died in the war is a matter to be determined by those who give the same...
...Coolidge's latest experiments have been with the fundamentals of matter. He makes electricity behave like radium. He knocks molecules into atoms, atoms into electrons. He changes the nature of things -with electricity...
...Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera House. Ever since the Mad Ludwig allowed him Bayreuth, it has been the way of musical folk to take the midsummer pilgrimage to bask in the glory of Richard Wagner. In the U. S. his glory spread more slowly. At first it was the matter of importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink, of Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were...