Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Navy was finished with the wreckage the native population took up their own investigation of the affair. This investigation was no less thorough and weighty than the Navy's, and, for that matter, no less official, for chiefs came, with their official advisers, from far and near to participate in the deliberations. Qualified experts carefully examined the wreck above and below waterline, and reported in detail to the august conferees, ranked in due order of precedence on the beach. After mature consideration the congress of chiefs pronounced the following findings for the information and guidance of their...
...half the product of his studio almost continuously on tour at loan exhibitions of dealers and provincial museums. For this he gets nothing except the vague possibility of making a sale, must stand damage and insurance on his own pictures. To force galleries to pay rental fees no matter how small on exhibited pictures became an important issue with a group of artists known as the American Artists' Congress...
Films & Jellies. Dr. Langmuir held the chemists spellbound when he recounted his tricks with "monofilms''-layers of matter only one molecule thick. Certain oils, fats and proteins will spread out in monofilms on water whose surface has been scraped clean. The molecules have dissimilar ends, "heads" and "tails." Some years ago Dr. Langmuir found that in a monofilm on water, the heads all pointed up, the tails down. Such films resemble crystals in that their structure and dimensions can be learned from their behavior under X-rays and polarized light...
...years ago Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute built a sensational bridge between the living and the nonliving by crystallizing the virus which causes tobacco mosaic disease. Crystallization is a property of nonliving matter but when the virus was applied to the leaf it promptly acquired the ability to reproduce itself-a characteristic of life. The virus is a giant molecule weighing 17,000,000 times as much as a hydrogen atom. Dr. Stanley found the molecule to be spherical, with a diameter of .0000002 cm. When Dr. Langmuir made a monofilm of the virus and then transferred...
...Extrasensory perception" is a far better known phrase today than it was a few years ago. It means perception of matter or of images in another person's mind without the aid of the ordinary senses-in other words, clairvoyance and telepathy. The fact that extrasensory perception is an increasingly familiar concept among people who pay no attention to crystal-gazers and swamis is largely due to the rigorously controlled, long-continued experiments at Duke University of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). Lately Dr. Rhine has felt the need of a word of wider scope...