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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This stagnation occurs when the red corpuscles swell, grow fragile, and finally disintegrate with loss of the red coloring matter, homeglobin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Harvard Scientists Find Cause Of Previously Unexplained Diseases | 11/22/1939 | See Source »

...your seat in suspense. But this time Capra has gone a step further: he has portrayed what James Truslow Adams calls the "American dream." Granted that the picture is emotional to the nth degree, the fact remains that democracy, Americanism--call it what you will--is more a matter of emotion than cold logic. When an American sees the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, he does not see merely the image of a great President. A thousand and one connotations are called up by that sight--the struggle for the Union, the defeat of slavery, in fact, the whole "American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

...combat planes, that future orders would be mostly for training ships. Reason: rising British home production and a growing disrespect for the Nazi airforce. Eastern planemakers, however, felt buying would increase when delivery could be assured. What a big German push on the Western Front would do was another matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...into a series of lines and solids. It is almost as if he had built his painting with blocks and spheres. Each element in such a creation is placed with direct regard to its relation with the other elements. It is an intellectual method of presenting the essence of matter in its artistic form...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Perhaps expectations about this picture have run so high that the eventual product would have to be an anti-climax, no matter how good it was. It does seem, however, that there are more potentialities in the film than have been realized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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