Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...language used furthers the writer's intended effect, it is good; so far as it fails to further that effect, it is bad, no matter how 'correct...
...told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born in the U. S. every year, was probably doomed to imbecility or death. Water pressure from the interior of her brain, he said, would squeeze the baby's grey matter against her soft skull bones until her head became even larger than the head of a normal adult...
...bottom is a lens, two tiny electric lights, two threadlike rubber hoses, for maintaining adequate fluid pressure in the brain, and an electric wire for cauterizing. At the top of the instrument is an eye piece and an electric connection. Gently working the ventriculoscope through Alice's grey matter down to one of her ventricles, Dr. Scarff was able to see about two inches of choroid plexus. Turning on the electricity, he seared off all the feathery tissue he could reach with his hot wire. Within a half hour he had cauterized the choroid plexus in both ventricles. After...
...According to this evening the Miyako Shimbun gives one of very interesting news regarding the British Government matter. Let try its news as follows stories...
...British rearmament which had been so hearteningly dramatized. In his low and unemotional voice Sir John admitted that his estimates for the defense budget last April had been wrong. Defense would not cost $3,140,000,000. The bill would run somewhat above $3,650,000,000-a little matter of $510,000,000 more than had been calculated. Since last year's defense budget was $2,000,000,000, this represented an increase...