Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary electron whose mass had somehow been increased. He imagined what would happen if a high-energy cosmic ray photon struck an electron in the upper atmosphere. Most of the transferred energy would simply give the electron a high-velocity kick. But some of it might be converted into matter which the electron would absorb, increasing its mass. The increase might be any amount at all, depending on the initial energy of the cosmic ray and the variable quantity of matter produced. Dr. Jauncey sent off a letter on these speculations to the editor of the Physical Review...
Chairman Jesse Jones explained RFC's hardheartedness as simply that "a matter of principle is involved." The ICC approved an RFC loan to the Erie on the I condition that C. & 0. guarantee it or put j up part collateral. C. & O. flatly refused, explaining that its first duty was to protect its own stockholders. Snapped Jesse Jones, after new C. & 0. President George D. Brooke refused to discuss the matter: "If C. & 0. is unwilling to nurture its own child. I do not see why the Government should. It seems a funny thing to me that a railroad...
...which receives a large part of C. & 0. dividends, their course might be different.'' Admitting that he would "not punish" the Erie if it were "independent," and questioning the right of C. & O. to control the Erie without helping it financially, he wound up: "It is a matter for the court-the juvenile court...
Dorothea's life was a matter of going to dull parties, visiting the King at Brighton, picking up scraps of gossip, nattering the King's fat mistress, patching up quarrels between, Austrian supporters, suffering boredom, nervousness, tantrums and fears of revolution, then making fun of everybody and everything to Metternich. Because she did so with a mixture of malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife...
...year is ample time to solve these problems, and so it might be if one could devote himself entirely to the task. But, a busy Senior year preparing for divisionals allows little leisure to pursue such aims. Furthermore, the choice of some field of work is not psychologically a matter of spontaneous determination; it is rather an evolutionary process, one during which ideas grow and coalesce and have a chance to mature...