Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Divisional examinations after next year. The delay of at least a year in putting the plan into effect is for the benefit of those members of the class of 1928 who intend to take their degrees next February. Although none of the other departments have yet considered the matter of changing the present system of two sets of General Examinations each year, it is probable that most of them will adopt the new plan within the next few years...
...wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy (1821-1910) twice widowed, once divorced, created a sect that now shows all signs of permanency. Its central tenet, as everyone knows, is that spirit alone is real. Matter is the projection of mind; disease, "error" of thought. Members of her Church of Christ, Scientist, come to meetings. "Readers" recite sections of Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures; at certain services fellow-believers rise and tell "experiences," express thanks for "favors" done them in misery. They have the consolation of being well regimented in one of 2,200 Christian Science congregations...
...sensationalism in this biography; the fact that George Eliot lived for many years with a man to whom she was not married, because of the inexorable divorce laws of the period, is treated with the common sense and dignity with which George Eliot herself regarded it. As a matter of fact Miss Haldane does not have the talent for "human interest"; she gives the background of Mary Ann Evans in a thoughtful and competent style, but she does not attempt to give color and sparkle to an essentially serious story Yet in the end the figure of the brilliant, high...
...like that which the highest intelligence once possessed--resides and can only reside in the relations which they find--which they are forced to find--between things of which we cannot grasp the law of continuity . . . Their supreme achievement, the one which the world admires, was only a simple matter, like comparing two lengths...