Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest quirk in the problem cropped up last week in Paris when French Senator Henry de Mery arose to comment on the proposed. duPont-financed seadromes of Inventor Edward R. Armstrong (TIME. Oct. 28). Senator de Mery urged the French delegation to the London parley to bring up this matter in connection with U. S. naval strength, warning that otherwise "just outside our territorial waters we will someday likely see islands appear flying the Star-Spangled Banner...
...manual telephone, the automatic exchange mechanically registers the called number on the big board in a manual exchange, where an operator reads the number, plugs the call through. Because operators are trained to hear numbers, they read them relatively slowly from the call board, a costly and vexatious matter...
...French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called her a "dupe of words," characterized her esthetic "seeing-hearing" (by touch-vibration) as "a matter of autosuggestion rather than perception." William James, U. S. philosopher, admired her less philosophically, thus: "The sum of it is that you are a blessing, and I'll kill anyone who says you are not." Blessing or dupe, Miss Keller, now 49. describes these commentators and other ladies and gentlemen...
...subject to the exclusion of many others that undoubtedly would be a broadening influence. The loss like a professional school the college remains, the more chance there is to avoid this rut and to exert a wholesome unrestricting influence on the students to whom they award degrees. No matter what professional field the college man may enter, the subjects studied outside of this field present a background upon which his specialized knowledge will have to work. Moreover, work not in a specified field offers a chance for contacts outside the particular professional pale which are daily becoming more difficult...
...most attractive feature of the autobiography will be the marginal illustrations, reproduced from sketches of the author's which are in the possession of the Library. Some of these were made by the artist while on holiday in Derbyshire, and the sketches referring to matter in the text of the autobiography have been secured for the new volume. The compilers have had a wealth of material from which to draw, as the Library possesses most of Crane's sketchbooks, in the Caroline Miller Parker Collection...