Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter, my dear!" said "Papa" Joffre, "No matter-Frenchmen won the Battle of the Marne. It is enough that the French Army saved France. The individual part need not.be considered...
...first upset in the post-election bull market came last week over a matter of $3. Sir Joseph Flavelle, head of the Canadian Marconi Co., a Canadian radio stock listed on the New York Curb, announced that $3 was too high a price for Canadian Marconi shares. Inasmuch as Canadian Marconi was being quoted at $27, Sir Joseph's tow Opinion of -the stock shocked Marconi speculators. Dropping perpendicularly at a speed that left the ticker far behind, Canadian Marconi dove to 15½ before trading in it was suspended. The stock had been riding on a rumor that...
...porcelain statuette of Buddha for Aunt Agatha, who has just discovered the possibilities of Oriental art. The triumph of which he is really proudest, however, does not lie in the impressive pile of his purchases, but rather in the stroke of policy that succeeded in settling a matter fully as difficult for him as the original purchasing...
...Master Printers' Association: "I shall never be quite happy until I have a really good newspaper in London. If any one of you has a good newspaper you want to sell at a very low price, I shall be pleased to take it over or. talk the matter over with...
...James writes from Europe about America and Coolidge in a way that must be applauded by all the debt-dodging nations. The New York Times that prints his writing should be paid advertising rates for 'full position, next to pure reading matter...