Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone from hot-weather shirt sleeves into a grey suitcoat, seemingly new. Not new, said he: the suit was at least a year old. Whereupon he peeked at a label, amazedly announced that the suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...
...dwarfed its spokesmen. What did it matter if British and French answers to Hitler pointed out flaws in the Fuhrer's logic? What did it matter if his arguments were inconsistent, if he contradicted speeches made before? What did it matter if Stalin reversed his own policies, if his followers denied one day what they had said the day before...
...partition of Poland by friendly Nazis and Reds (see p. 29). "I am happy now ... to refute . . . British statesmen who continually maintain that Germany intends to dominate Europe to the Ural Mountains. . . . Now, gentlemen of the British Empire, Germany's aims are very limited. We have discussed the matter with Russia . . . and if you are of the opinion that we might come to a conflict on the subject-we will not. . . . It will calm you to learn that Germany does not, and did not, want to conquer the Ukraine...
...undergraduate chooses medicine, hopping on the already overcrowded band-wagon, feeling it may carry him safely through the hectic years that lie ahead. Governments may fall and financial systems disintegrate, but not in his lifetime will human anatomy change, not in his lifetime will human disease cease. Society, no matter what form it may take, will provide livelihood for those who can cure, repair, reconstruct...
...Systematic investigation of matter and energy without regard to immediate prac tical ends has turned out to be the most direct road to social riches." This is the basic thesis of Atoms In Action* published this week by George Russell Harrison, California-born professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "In the long run," says he, "digging for truth has always proved not only more interesting, but more profitable, than digging for gold. If urged on by the love of digging, one digs deeper than if searching for some particular nugget. Practicality is inevitably shortsighted, and is self-handicapped...