Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week mighty Pravda (which claims 2,000,000 copies daily) gave three of its 24 columns to a claim that the principle of conservation of matter,* attributed by Westerners to Lavoisier (1775), was really discovered by an 18th Century Russian poet-scientist-philosopher named Mikhail Lomonosov. This week the Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin...
...That matter is neither destroyed nor created during a chemical reaction, such as combustion...
...young. He is supported by a large cast, including a "terribly brainy" penguin who "gets somewhat irritable over other peopie's muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...
...grandiose ideas always go wrong, and, in that sense, he is the epitome of a whole field of human experience." The London Observer's radio critic has written learnedly of Muffin's "fresh, inventive, convivial" antics. Anthony Smith, one of Muffin's fans, puts the matter more simply: "I am four years old," he wrote. "I love Muffin...
...Author Comfort implies that Weinstock was right, on the ground that an act of human kindness is its own justification and reward. In the end, the harried Weinstock, fearful of being jailed for the deserter's killing, flees the city. Where to? For him it does not matter; "one place [is] as good as another...