Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know what life is, but we do know that life is certainly a physical property, a behavior of a colloidal miscella [grain] of a particular constitution. In order to study this constitution, this behavior, we must necessarily turn to the smallest particle of autonomous living matter, where life presents itself in its most elementary form, where the complexity of the vital phenomena is least extensive. This infinitely small being which it is necessary to study is, therefore a protobe [protos=first, bios= life] and to be even more specific, it is that one which can most readily be observed...
...ahead of the boom Frank Gannett was when he made his plans, he alone could say. How long before the most provincial Americano will be thoroughly conscious of Winston-Salem's place in the sun, is also a matter of conjecture. But with a Gannett paper in town, Winston-Salem's light is in no danger of bushel-burial, despite a curious feature of that town which any friend of Mr. Gannett's would not fail to remark should he accompany the publisher down there some day to look things over...
...Oxford, 32 years ago, Sir Oliver had startled many by a demonstration that electromagnetic waves ("radio") could be used for signaling, without communicating wires. His subject this time, of course, was spiritism. He began by showing how physicists have proved the nonexistence of a "material" world (all "matter" being ultimately composed of whirling particles of immaterial electricity). He ended by predicting "revolutionary" scientific discoveries in a spirit-world that surrounds the one we know. "Mercifully, things are screened from us that we may go about our business and do our daily work. That is our job for a time...
...communicating with one another by impulses sent out electrically on the ether that fills in spaces between Earth's atmospheric gas molecules, watched and listened carefully to see if the shower of meteors would cause any waves of disturbance detectable by their instruments. Their reports on this matter were negative but inconclusive. They determined to watch and listen again on Nov. 13, when the Earth passes through a meteor field called the Leonids...
With a flourish, the New York Herald-Tribune published last week more than a column of matter which purported to be an interview with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, reopening the squabble between him and General Nobile as to who did what aboard the Pole-crossing Norge (TIME, Aug. 2). Mr. Ellsworth was quoted directly. Hurt, angry, he flayed the Norwegian Aero Club for permitting Nobile to assume prominence upon the expedition in the first instance, and specifically, for telling Nobile, lately, that he might write more than a "technical appendix" to the official book of the trip, which Ellsworth and Amundsen...