Word: matter-of-fact
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...MATTER-OF-FACT Freshman to go-as-you-please Freshman on the morning of the Physics examinations: "Say, Ned, got this down pretty fine...
...TRAVELLED abroad with a very genial companion who had graduated at Harvard some twelve or fifteen years ago. He was, at the time of our journey, a sedate man of thirty, plain in his person, and matter-of-fact in his ideas. He manifested no especial sentimentality in visiting the famous scenes and monuments of the Old World, and seemed on the whole somewhat of a cynic. We parted in Paris, he to devote several years to study and further travel, I to return to America and begin my life at the University. Just before we shook hands...
...friend George ever fell in love with Alice Hadden is - well, inexplicable. His is one of those swift-dividing intellects that seem perpetually to hover about the line that sunders reason and madness, subject to strange dreams and fancies, imaginative to an unhealthy degree. And she was whole matter-of-fact and commonplace, pretty enough, but - pah! what is such a woman when she grows old? But George was undoubtedly, uncompromisingly in love. And so matters came about that they were engaged to be married...
...watching the University Crew the visitor is much struck with the easy, matter-of-fact way in which the old men do their work as contrasted with the stiffer, more labored, and less efficient efforts of the new men. To the old men rowing seems to be the most natural thing in the world. It is worth rowing a couple of years to acquire that graceful, powerful style and swing which seem to make the severest labor mere pastime. The new men are stout, vigorous fellows; but they bucket, catch behind the others, do not go back far enough, hurry...
...practical politicians call him a "d-n literary fellow." This is the result of his college training! A college-bred man can do better in professional life, where his irregular habits may be tolerated, than in business; but even here he is at a disadvantage beside a plain, matter-of-fact man of the world...