Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What could the U.S. do? Washington was publicly silent. Senator Styles Bridges, chairman of the congressional "watchdog" committee on foreign aid, demanded a special session of Congress. But that idea was promptly labelled absurd. The fate of prostrate China now seemed only a matter of days...
...Administrative Board feels nay the present system of separate examinations involves educational disadvantages to Radcliffe students. She noted that professors with combined classes could not be present at the beginning of the tests to clarify instructions and answers about test material. "This is an important consideration in a matter as important as an examination," she said. "The time lost could mean a significant difference in a student's grade...
...sentiment of undergraduates is of importance in this matter, the committee can perform a valuable service by devising a system that will provide needed counsel for the student without robbing him of the maturity and ability to make decisions that come from his current responsibility for his own destiny at Harvard...
...making large molecules (such as proteins) move through a solution under the influence of electrical forces. This work is more important than it sounds to laymen. Proteins and other "macro-molecules" are the building blocks of living organisms. Life itself can be described chemically as the exchange of matter and energy among the proteins in living cells...
...good-go somewhere else.' " His men get up at 6 a.m. to start the day in the saddle; they also study the anatomy of the horse, the foreign riding styles (especially Italian, French and German), keep fit with fencing, basketball and swimming. But no matter how hard they try, the pupils never excel the teacher...