Word: matter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shocks. Central element of the machine is the impulse Tenderer. A stream of water carrying animal or vegetable matter is fed into it. As the water flows through, beaters moving with a linear velocity of 22,000 feet per minute produce a series of shock waves at the rate of 35,000 per minute. These shock waves, traveling through the water, break open the cells in much the way that a depth charge can crack a submarine's hull, and the cell's contents-mostly water, protein, and fat or oil-spill out. The slurry is passed through...
...looking for small-time football. "I want to win as much as anyone," he said. "I even want to beat my wife at croquet. But football should be fun-even for the coach. It may sound corny, but I believe that line about 'it doesn't matter who wins or loses-it's how you play the game...
...think the very flat refusal to take care of the matter of our long-range financing is one of the most serious things that has happened to the United States in my time." Thus President Eisenhower last week criticized Congress for its failure to raise the 4¼% ceiling on long-term Government bond rates (TIME, Sept. 21). Raising the interest the Government pays on such bonds, argued Congressmen, would only be an open invitation to all other money rates to go up, would cost the Government more to finance its debt. Last week interest rates were going up anyway...
...trying to keep interest rates under the 4¼% ceiling, which now has turned out to be no ceiling at all but rather a prime cause of higher interest rates. Once the public is educated to that fact, said Ike. "Congress will feel the heat of truth about this matter and do something." At week's end the public was about to be educated. In Washington, the Federal Housing Administration prepared to raise the home mortgage rate from 5½% to 5¾%. a step expected to drain off financing for G.I. home loans, still legally limited...
...influential faculty members have expressed their definite interest in meeting to discuss the issue before the next meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is scheduled for Oct. 20. It is not known whether the Committee on Educational Policy or the Committee of Deans will debate the matter before the Faculty meets...