Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly when he said that I was probably, in listening to debates at the college and in inviting my opponents, pursuing with a good deal of perspicacity a study of those men-- that I was making up my mind to see whether these zealous opponents were of the right stuff to be made professors in Harvard University. That is just what I was doing...
...auction at Paris. The auctioneer, however, refused to sell them. Said he: "I am a wounded soldier myself, and could not stand to see a fellow soldier's cross being auctioned to the highest bidder. The official auctioneer's duty consists of selling stuff given him for that purpose, but this time I took it upon myself to act differently...
After a century of intensified research, physicists are coming back to the old hypothesis of William Prout that all matter is made up of one fundamental stuff--hydrogen. The laws of conservation of mass and energy, and the law of limited transmutability of matter, too, are in a state of flux. Calvin Page disregards completely the efforts of such eminent workers as Rutherford, Aston, J. J. Thomson, Soddy, and Millikan, and boldly launches forth upon the exploitation of his formula, phlogistic in its nature, intended to explain all natural phenomena in a "common-sense" way. He is backed...
...length of which he strides like a hurricane, swinging his cane, and shaking the floor with the weight of his stal- wart frame. Last May, eight months ago, Mr. Swope decided that the Democrats would hold their 1924 Convention in Manhattan. At once the idea became "front page stuff" on the World. The rest of Manhattan smiled, knowing that the home of Tammany and Wall Street was not a convention town. But Swope had only begun. He gave a private luncheon at the Biltmore. For guests he had Frank Munsey, owner of three metropolitan papers, Morgan J. O'Brien (former...
Meanwhile the Brazilians have learned that all our wives are foolish, all our youth is flaming, and all our sunsets are obscured by an enamoured couple locked in a long and lingering embrace. In America, the chief effect of this sort of stuff is a certain softening of the brain. If Brazil can eat it up, as after all, America, eats it up too and get away with it, without the accompanying cerebral debility, Americans will be the first to rejoice and incidentally, to profit...