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Word: mattering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both England and the U.S. last week, a bestselling novel was causing religious controversy. The novel: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter (see BOOKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward the Heart | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...book expounding a heresy or defending the faith? Had he made his "hero" a damned sinner or a shining saint-or merely a nice guy who didn't know how to get along with women? And what, exactly, did he mean by "the heart of the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward the Heart | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...actual speed varies considerably with the air's temperature (the colder the slower). To eliminate this variability from their figuring, scientists have given the speed of sound a special name. In aerodynamics, the speed of sound in any air under consideration is called "Mach I,"* no matter what the actual speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Power to You | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Unlike last year, when the department let 22 million bushels rot, while consumers groused at high prices, the Government is determined to put this year's potato surplus to use. It is going to do it no matter what the cost. So it is sponsoring a new industry: the manufacture of potato flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Price of Parity | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...HEART OF THE MATTER (306 pp.)-Graham Greene-Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Price Pity? | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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