Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rapid exploitation, have made us what one might call a hopelessly optimistic nation. No evil day can possibly dawn upon us; we are too clever. Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point out that the pitifully short lives full of hunger and misery endured by the peoples of China and India, and the economic disturbances of Western Europe, are due in large measure to high population...
...most important part of a cartoon is of course, the idea. Its presentation, while important is secondary. There are three main divisions into which cartoons are classified as to their subject-matter naturally fall. There is the political cartoon, the straight narrative cartoon, usually centered around some joke, and the cartoon which is a commentary on some point which is true to life. It is the last group that I place my work...
Mummy Germs: Tubercular bacilli found in Egyptian mummies are just like those that infest human bodies today. The characteristics of living matter change only as environment changes. Primitive living molecules were and are proteins. There is no life save in protein. The first evidence of life is metabolism or trading in energy. Biologists say the origin of species is due to changes in the formation of cells. In fact it is due to changes in types of proteins based on differences in environment.?Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, National Research Council...
...April number is any criterion, the matter of verse now receives less attention that it used to. "Along the Sky" and "Thetis" water a bit, and all though Mr. Abbott is as ever in "Les Papilions de Nuit", one might hint that here, too Pegasus feels the weight of the dictionary...
...been proved through centuries as Oxford and Cambridge America is gradually arriving at a same and supremely practical plan that testers the intellectual growth of the ambitions student and at the same time tends to eliminate the haugers-on who encumber the colleges. Education is after all a matter of and for the individual, and the educational trend of the present day shows an endeavor to broaden and further the score of individual interest and development...