Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handled separately. At this remark, political ears pricked. It was the first time Mr. Roosevelt had publicly mentioned one of the most delicate aspects of his new Liberal party. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass declared that Franklin Roosevelt had exhibited "an absolutely superficial knowledge of the matter...
...have noticed no follow-up story on this matter, and wonder if this unjust condition is being duly righted, or whether the powers that be have managed to squash the upstart and his fearless judge...
Bright enough to leave a long silvery reflection on a dark river is the monster planet Jupiter now shining in the southeastern sky. Three hundred times larger than the earth, containing more matter than all the other planets combined, Jupiter takes twelve years to complete its ponderous revolution around the sun. Far from the centre of the solar system, Jupiter receives little heat, has a small core of solid rock, surrounded by a frozen ocean, thousands of fathoms deep. Thick clouds hide from astronomers the furious storms that rack the planet, scarring its face with wide bands of purple...
...discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard at the University of California's Lick Observatory in 1892, VI and VII by C. D. Perrine also at Lick in 1904-1905, and VIII by Melotte at Greenwich in 1908. Discovery of the satellites was not only a telescopic feat, but a matter of practical importance to astronomy. As far back as 1675, Ole Roemer, Danish astronomer, noting that the eclipses of Satellite I varied with the distance of the earth from Jupiter, discovered the motion of light, and made the first calculation of its velocity...
...amusement or else commercial fakery. Photomontage, however, was first used for serio-comic artistic purposes by the Dadaists around 1919, was later developed in Germany by Experimenters Moholy-Nagy and Walter Peterhans (see p. 50). It has been ably used for posters by Soviet Artist El Lissitzky, Swiss Herbert Matter, Hollander Cesar Domela-Nieuwenhuis, German Herbert Bayer, and badly used in many a U. S. journal. Out of Spain last week came a set of photomontages that contained at least two masterpieces in this kind...