Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member (Bessie Love) of a team of vaudeville sisters, in love with her partner's fiance (Charles King),makes theatrical and eventually frustrated gestures toward self-sacrifice, you see how Director Beaumont has tried casually and hastily to achieve the authenticity of certain stage productions of similar subject matter. The best element is Bessie Love. Though limited by her lines, this oldtime and of late not very conspicuous star gives one of the finest speaking performances thus...
...direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each other. They create atoms of matter, the atoms molecules, the molecules earth, water, air. Fire (heat) is one effect of their interaction...
Special Theory of Relativity. Einstein did not develop his conception of the world suddenly. He began by suspecting that nothing in the world was privileged, neither matter, nor motion, nor anything else. His suspicion led to the perception that there is one great physical law which describes everything...
...artist parodied Washington Crossing the Delaware so daringly that an issue of the Lampoon was barred from the U. S. mails. But the anti-Harkness issue seemed to transcend all Lampoon offenses against good taste and sense, and the reason for this seemed to be that the matter in hand was, for once, serious and tangible...
...ideal rediscount rate is a rate that is high enough to discourage speculative borrowing and low enough to encourage industrial borrowing. The determination of such a rate is obviously a delicate matter involving many considerations other than bulls and bears alone. The New York rediscount rate has, however, been raised three times in the last year (though without any withering effect on the market), t was not raised following the Reserve Board's proclamation of last week...