Word: questioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stagnation and decline. One of the interesting observations of recent years is the inability of the system to maintain itself at any level it has attained. We do not stop. We either go forward or back." He was for going forward, and gave as "the overall question" of the investigation: "Why have we not had full employment and full utilization of our magnificent resources...
Last week a paleontologist announced that he had found the answer to a question which has preoccupied paleontologists for years: could the sauropod walk out of water? It is fairly well established that the sauropods, big vegetarian dinosaurs weighing up to 40 tons, were dependent for their existence on bodies of water in which grew vast quantities of water plants. Some fossil men have also supposed that, on account of their great weight, the monsters had to stay in the water all the time for its buoying effect-that on dry land their legs would buckle. Others disagreed...
Nurserymen have found it to be a notable advantage in speeding up the growth of new plants. It is, therefore, intended to be of assistance in the question of the national fuel supply...
...relatively unimportant whether or not twenty German students come to Harvard. Neither the undergraduate body nor the National Socialist Government will be very seriously affected one way or the other. But the question of whether an ideal as broad as Tolerance will be able to weld the student body into a united, cohesive group is of extreme importance...
...most important question for physics to answer is: What is matter made of? A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules. The molecules are built of atoms. Twenty years ago the ancient Greek notion persisted that atoms were indivisible. Then Ernest Rutherford of England split nitrogen atoms with atomic bullets from radium. Seven years ago physicists were willing to analyze all the matter in the universe in terms of two parts of the atom: protons and electrons...