Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing industry cannot know, with any degree of certainty, what kind of receivers to make for the future...
Physicist Robley D. Evans, another fruit-fly expert, concluded that hereditary abnormalities are unlikely if a small fraction of the population suffers moderate radiation exposure. Acting as an informal referee, Dr. Shields Warren, the A.E.C.'s top radiation expert, sided with Evans but called it "a matter of opinion...
Quality. No matter how purebred the bull used for insemination (natural or artificial), it has always taken a purebred cow to produce a purebred calf. Scrub cows would produce half-breeds of unpredictable value. At Purdue University in 1941, Ray Umbaugh got the idea of carrying artificial insemination a step further. He asked himself: Why not transplant ova from pedigreed cows to scrubs...
...warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could not bring himself to dispense with a manservant. Ugh! Be a tramp or be a millionaire; it matters little which: what does matter is being a poor relation of the rich; and that is the very devil...
...Fallen Idol (Korda; S.R.O.), when Sir Alexander Korda released it last year in London, was a tremendous hit. Most of the enthusiastic raves were for a nine-year-old, towheaded actor named Bobby Henrey. The rest of the praise went to Author Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter), who supplied a fascinating story, and to Director Carol Reed (Night Train), who for sheer virtuosity outdid himself. Most of the uproar, it turns out, was solidly justified...