Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known living thing is crystalline in form. It would be fantastic to imagine a crystalline pig. Yet the virus showed the ability to reproduce itself in great quantities when stimulated by contact with a plant. Thus the Princeton chemist had discovered an apparent bridge between living and nonliving matter. This was a discovery of Nobel Prize calibre...
...fact that bank loans for commercial purposes have risen steadily all year, though industry has been receding and new security issues have been virtually frozen. Until very recently this has been worrisome only to investment bankers forced to scratch for commissions. But the market crash has made the matter headline news by damming up some $150,000,000 in new security offerings which underwriters dare not release for fear of getting stung like Edward B. Smith...
...will suffer unnecessarily and grievously; if the latter course is adopted a great private industry will be stimulated and its soundly issued securities validated, with advantage to the public interests. No one disputes that evils need correction, but exactly what remain and how they should be corrected is a matter for debate and not arbitrary determination by anyone...
...pollution discharged in rivers by the drainage systems of cities and industrial wastes is destroyed largely by oxidation, and the oxygen requirements of such rivers is therefore a matter of great importance...
These problems, together with the problem of stabilization of organic matter in municipal sewage treatment works, are representative of the researches in progress at the present time...