Word: topmost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter from flying apart-and what, indeed, differentiates matter from energy? When science can answer these questions, it may be able to turn any kind of matter, at will, into its energy equivalent. But the new cyclotron, powerful though it be, may not guide man at once to this topmost fruit on Science's Tree of Knowledge...
Four of America's topmost folk singers, headed by Tom Glazer and Hally Wood, will sing for and with a College audience tonight in a Hootenanny at the New Lecture Hall...
...Topmost Branch. Either way, the Army still runs Brazil. Over 100,000 strong, it is the fourth-and dominant-branch of government. In the backlands, where the officer shares pre-eminence with the priest, it operates railways, civilizes the Indians. It has produced many of the country's political leaders, not excepting Communist Chief Luis Carlos Prestes, a commander in a civil war in the '20s. Last week it quelled a revolt of noncoms who would have restored ex-Dictator Vargas...
Western Civilization. If the topmost climber from the pit of the past could take time from his desperate effort to save himself by climbing higher, he would see below a paralyzing panorama of desolation. Must he join it too? How much longer can he keep going? What is the state of Western civilization? How firm is its grip upon the rocks which can kill more easily than they can help his ascent...
...last week the league did not feel so smart. In Manhattan's Federal District Court, the U.S. Government filed a criminal information under the Commodities Exchange Act, charging the league and four of its topmost officers with illegally manipulating a commodity in interstate commerce. Maximum penalty: a $10,000 fine and one year in jail. To boot, the Department of Justice was making an antitrust investigation of the butter collapse, and the Department of Agriculture was considering a move to cut the January milk prices...