Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forrestal was forced to admit that the Joint Chiefs of Staff considered the 66-group program "inadequate as a military matter." The Senators, suspicious of a force taken out of mothballs, gave it short shrift, decided to take matters in their own hands...
...Spaak, who in his Bond Street-style clothes still recalls Pieter Bruegel's ripe-colored, sturdy figures, himself best symbolizes Belgium's healthy appetite for good life, good sense and hard work. Last week he had a chance to show his mettle in a political controversy-the matter of raising the subsidies to state schools. That was a touchy business in a coalition government of eight Socialists, nine Christian Socialists (Catholic party) and two nonparty technicians. The Catholic party, which has strong roots among a people whose lusty contentment is matched by deep religious feeling, protested that...
This figure (6 BEV) has a thrilling, musical ring to the ears of nuclear physicists. The 184-inch cyclotron at Berkeley generates only about 350 MEV (million electron volts). With this comparatively puny force, it creates mesons, the mysterious particles knocked out of matter by cosmic rays from space. The new cyclotron will give its protons so much energy that they will act like the "primary" cosmic rays themselves, which slam through the earth's atmosphere and plunge deep into the ground. These wild invaders from space have never before been caged in laboratories. No one can guess what...
...mystery of physics is: what keeps matter from flying apart-and what, indeed, differentiates matter from energy? When science can answer these questions, it may be able to turn any kind of matter, at will, into its energy equivalent. But the new cyclotron, powerful though it be, may not guide man at once to this topmost fruit on Science's Tree of Knowledge...
When a U.S. contractor set out to build a building or a road, he ordered cement from as many as ten plants. The nearest might be next door, the farthest 1,000 miles away. But when the cement was delivered, it all came at the same price, no matter whether it had been shipped one mile or 1,000. The "multiple basing point system" worked that...