Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autonomous Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church has its own Japanese bishop and 20,000 faithful. Said the secretaries: "It must be remembered that the open sympathy of America for China and the statements and resolutions from this country arouse antagonism in the minds of many Japanese, and, as a matter of course, the position of American missionaries is made more delicate and difficult...
Most Rev. Giuseppe Pizzardo, 61, scholar and diplomat, who is secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, head of the Church's bureau of Catholic Action. Once detested by Italy's Fascists because he fought the Pope's battle with them over the matter of educating Italian youth, Monsignor Piz-zardo, like the Pope, is today disposed to collaborate with Fascism. As much as any prelate in the Vatican, he has the Holy Father's ear in business and financial affairs. Last May he was the Pope's legate to the coronation...
Physicists probing within the atom toward the ultimate constitution of matter already had their hands full with positive and negative electrons, neutrons (uncharged particles), protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms), deuterons (nuclei of doubleweight hydrogen), tritons (nuclei of tripleweight hydrogen), alpha particles (nuclei of helium), and the theoretical but necessary neutrino (little neutron...
...which atomic physicists need in their calculations but which has never yet come to light experimentally. Quite different are unexpected and sometimes unwelcome discoveries* which do not fit into any preconceived picture and further complicate the problems with which scientists struggle. Such a thing is a new particle of matter, which as yet has no name except "X-particle...
...inferior materials cost laundrymen some $6,000,000 a year; dry-cleaners some $16,000,000. And even the best rayon must be washed and ironed differently from silks if it is not to be injured. Women's clubs as long ago as 1920 were abuzz over the matter and in 1921 the General Federation of Women's Clubs adopted a truth-in-fabrics resolution. Last year the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, through a committee headed by Miss Jaffray, sent a petition to Washington demanding that all goods have labels identifying their fibre...