Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government in an awkward corner. Not only had the U.S. put its signature to partition; without U.S. sponsorship the plan would never have passed. They put forth practical as well as moral arguments: the Arabs needed U.S. dollars as much as the U.S. needed Arabian oil. No matter how they raged, the Arabs would not kill such a golden-egg-laying goose...
Spokesmen of the J. P. Morgan company made known the stipulations of the will, filed for probate in New York's Rockland Country. No immediate announcement will be made of the disposition of the University's sum, Provest Buck said last night, the Corporation, in whose hands the matter rests, must meet before coming to any decisions...
Secretary pro-tem Bingham made a little joke telling of his experience chairing the as-yet-unnamed intra-University (College, Law, Business, Engineering, Divinity, etc., Schools) organization. Everyone laughed. Not much was said about the new organization. Another matter came up about the X-raying of College students by the Cambridge TB Association which will begin on February 16th. though the service will be free, Weld made the astute observation that the Association's hope for 5200 victims was overly hopeful as he believed the average, normal Harvard undergrad wouldn't bother to walk past the X-ray machine...
...year range of the 200-inch. Behind this humdrum-sounding chore lies the eerie, brain-staggering problem of the curvature of space. Mathematical physicists believe (from Einstein's ubiquitous Relativity) that space is curved back upon itself, in a four-dimensional way, by the gravitational effect of the matter it contains. The curvature is too slight to be detected on earth or even in the enormous sphere, 500 million light-years in radius, penetrated by the 100-inch telescope. But theory hints that doubling the radius to the billion-light-year radius of the 200-inch may show...
...that Negro troops were segregated in a nearby town (there had been some bad riots), he said, "Policies like that are Naziism." He believed that if he, and men like him, failed, the "strong men" (meaning the pilots) would take over: "and then you've got Fascism no matter how you disguise...