Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...
...Tighe, with a fire behind him as well as before, was not inclined to be placated. "Old stuff," he said. "The only solution is recognition of Amalgamated. That's all they have...
...Science were so surprised to see parts of a submerged reef well known to chartmakers jutting a few inches above water that they waded out to chip off samples. When they brought back their specimens to Instructor James H. Glasgow, University of Chicago graduate student, he stared at the stuff, decided it was white coral, sent it to university geologists who confirmed his opinion. Divers were sent to survey Lake Michigan's coral reef. It parallels the shore for 1,500 ft., is flat on top, evidently shaved off by Pleistocene glaciers. Mr. Glasgow ascribed it to the Silurian...
...college team to be concentrated, but on the Varsity this year one might almost say it is limited to those three or four; if part of the first half of the batting order gets on bases, it's long odds if the lower half can show enough stuff to bring home the bacon. Failure to bring men home was one of the main reasons for losing to Tufts. This weakness is further accentuated by the total lack of pinch hitters...
Perhaps this suggestion is due to an incomplete understanding of the underlying purpose of the concentration system. In defense, however, I point out the following: That it would be one thing if all the material in each field were vital, significant stuff. But this is patently and pathetically untrue. There is an appalling amount of dead wood in each field, imposed willy-nilly on the concentrator, and of no conceivable significance except to those who require an encyclopedic comprehension of that field...