Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tell me if I'm screwy for having the idea that, being the President's son, they'd have called me a crook no matter what business I'd entered...
...Britain that fatwa was potentially a more serious matter than any ten or twelve riots in Palestine. For it meant that a contagious form of disturbance had escaped from quarantine in Palestine. Iraq, with the oil fields of Mosul and Kirkuk, is definitely a British sphere of influence, and beyond it lie other British areas with large Moslem populations, subject to the same contagion...
...final texts were almost identical with the originals. The language has only 16 simple rules of grammar, to which there are no exceptions. Its huge vocabulary is compounded from roots common to many languages. For instance, from the root pres (to print) are derived presajho (a piece of printed matter), represi (to reprint), presejo (a printing establishment), presigi (to have printed), presisto (a printer), presilo (a printing press), nepresebla (unprintable), presinda (worthy of printing), presacho (an abominable piece of printing...
...certainly confirmed. The existence of elements heavier than uranium is theoretically possible. In fact, such heavy elements of higher numbers than 92 are supposed to exist in vast quantities in the interiors of stars; and chemical theorists have calculated that those elements must account for 98% of the total matter in the universe...
...early stages of a science, the classification of its subject matter is a necessary job. Dr. La Piere divides collective behavior into several categories: institutional, conventional, regimental and formal (marriages, funerals, military organization and conduct, etc.); congenial (recreation); audience behavior; exchange (economic) and politic (political); nomothetic (behavior in regard to law); and such "escape" types of group behavior as panic, revelous, fanatical and rebellious.† By "revelous" behavior. Dr. La Piere means all kinds of revelry which serve to discharge tensions accumulated in day-to-day living-harvest festivals of peasants, New Year's celebrations in cities, orgiastic dances...