Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bureau of the Mint avers that the Jefferson nickel, no matter what apparent distortion appears in photographs of the model, will be perfectly circular...
...victims, hay fever is no laughing matter. Every summer, over 6,000,000 people in the U. S. are racked by its sneezes, blinded by its tears. For half the sufferers, the 15th of August, when ragweed fever begins, is their last sneezeless day till frost. Why the disease always strikes on August 15 is no nasal mystery, but merely another indication of Nature's regularity. As August 15 approaches, the shortening of daylight hours allows the ragweed plant precisely enough sunlight to ripen it on that day. And the number of hours of daylight and darkness...
Just 100 years ago a pioneer archeologist in Palestine, Professor Edward Robinson of Union Theological Seminary, stood on the site of Armageddon, but failed to recognize it. In Robinson's day archeology was more a matter of looking for surface indications than laborious, carefully planned digging. The site was one of the flat-topped mounds which the natives call tells. This particular one, Tell-el-Mutesellim, was picked as the probable site of Armageddon by Harold Haydon Nelson of the University of Chicago, and the university's Rockefeller-endowed Oriental Institute started digging there in 1925. The diggers...
...extreme depression he had rushed to the window. But he had not made up his mind to kill himself. In addition to his depression he was suffering from schizophrenia (split personality), and schizophrenics have the power to forget their bodies, to remain for hours in one position, no matter how painful or precarious their plight. Contrasuggestibility (perversity) that also accompanies this disease was aroused by the persistent efforts to get him inside. Finally, his desire to contradict overcame his urge for life...
Possibly just as influential on Chicago's WPA painting are certain restrictions on subject matter imposed by the assistant to the national director, shrewd, brown-eyed Mrs. Increase Robinson. They are: no nudes, no dives, no social propaganda. Presumably tranquilized by these exclusions, by a living wage of $94 a month and by freedom from any compulsion to be fashionable, such exhibiting artists as Raymond Breinin, Lester Schwartz, William Schwartz, Hester Miller Murray, Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland...