Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beloved cathedral with its huge golden cupola was razed to the ground. Workmen dug a gigantic pit, began to sink piles. Then suddenly they found that the ground was unsuitable, and suspended operations. That was some 15 years ago, and last week the gaping pit was still there. No matter what their press told them, Muscovites presumably still knew the difference between a skyscraper and a hole in the ground...
...trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid on the other." His solid matter includes such stories as Arizona's side of the current water squabble with California...
Missing Heads. Explained the Met's Curator of Prints, A. Hyatt Mayor: "It does not matter if you are aware or ignorant of the Greeks and Romans; for them or against them. They are half the facts of life for Western...
...lonely and at loose ends, wandered into his beehouse. There he began to watch a mud-dauber wasp as she buzzed purposefully to the window sill, stretched her forefeet out like a kitten, and took a sun bath. She seemed to know exactly what she was about. In a matter of minutes Shafer's admiration was aroused and he found a new and absorbing interest in life. That...
...larva has a closed alimentary canal. All the waste matter from its heavy protein diet is stored in an internal sac until the baby mud dauber has finished its food store. Then the larva develops an anus and excretes the entire sac into a back compartment of its bedchamber. It seals off the narrow connecting passage with a blob of quick-hardening cement, secreted especially for the purpose, so that it can spend the winter hygienically in the clean, dry front chamber...