Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quiet, matter-of-fact, smiling was Prosecutor Dewey as he rose to sum up the State's case before the blue-ribbon jury. Although Tom Dewey's first attempt at pinning Jimmy Hines had ended in a mistrial and given the defense a complete preview of his case, although his star witness. Numbers Racketeer George Weinberg, had committed suicide before he could be brought back to the stand, Tammanyman Hines and his counsel had seemed unable to press their advantage. Nevertheless, even confident Tom Dewey was pleasantly surprised when the jury returned less than seven hours after...
...last the hapless Crimson basketball forces enter a game in which they cannot be classed as underdogs when they entertain Yale in the Indoor Athletic Building tonight. As a matter of fact, with the advantage of playing in their own back yard, Coach Fesler's cagers rate the favorite's role against Coach Loeffler's erratic quintet...
...separate and distinct aspects to the American Civilization Plan. First is its extra-curricular nature. This looks toward the inculcation of a habit of self-education in students, toward the provision of a "key to future education" which would make learning a life-long process. Second is its subject matter. This is American history in the broadest sense--cultural, scientific, and economic as well as political history, all brought into a unified and correlated whole. Third is its position in the field of education. The Plan seeks to bridge a number of academic departments, to break down the water-tight...
Marquis has, after all, a wonderful ability for characterization. No matter with whom he is dealing he does so sympathetically. Mister Splain, a village drunk, a backslider, chicken thief; Cherry Saltus, the stupid, over-sexed girl who turns the town upside down by her adventures; Jim Shale, the grave-digger who is guilty of being an unconfessed free-thinker--these people the author neither reproaches nor encourages. He merely shows them to you as he understands them, with all the power of his insight...
Everyone takes it for granted that the sun will go on shining until he dies-and, as a matter of lesser interest, for a long time after he dies. Astrophysicists, who believe the solar star-stuff has been hot for billions of years and will be so for billions of years more, have long cudgeled their brains for a reason why. Most favored of recent theories is that hydrogen is the fuel. It is known that the sun does not "burn" hydrogen, in the sense of releasing stored chemical energy as from coal; it physically changes fragments of hydrogen atoms...