Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that year at Chicago. His first act was to ask Judge James H. Reed, his lawyer, father of Pennsylvania's present Senator, if the thing might not be avoided. Judge Reed said yes, of course it could be avoided, but he advised Mr. Mellon to accept as a matter of public duty. Mr. Mellon said he expected to be very occupied that coming June. Judge Reed said very well, that he would arrange to accompany Mr. Mellon to the convention as his alternate, so that Mr. Mellon could leave if necessary. Mr. Mellon acquiesced, and when the time came...
Here, defended from the march of progress by the sturdy barrier of Judge, Junior, the good old customs will go on. What does it matter if the authors are strayed revellers, what if the number is diminishing of those who still care enough to illuminate their college, their class and their own family name with the last glints of a faded splendor...
...Alumni Directory, and the Quinquennial Catalogue, as well as the direction of the University publications office which issues the various catalogues and pamphlets published by the University. According to the announcement made yesterday Bailey's appointment was made by the Overseers and is a University rather than a College matter...
...years of contemplation is a brilliant exposure of those gods, pointing to the irony of the fear they are able to rouse in man. His leisurely narrative is rich in satire and delicious humor, which may easily be misunderstood for meaningless, if somewhat lickerish, drool. But even the most matter-of-fact reader will envy the bright existence led by Douglas' creatures, and be charmed by his prose...
...demonstratable truths. To bridge the charm between philosophy and religion, one must, however, as Mr. Spaulding points out, take flight from the solid earth, and to pronounce upon the success with which he had done this must be left to the individual reader. Dr. Brown's volume "Beliefs That Matter," is on the other hand written purely from the standpoint of Christian theology. With the subtitle, "A Theology For Laymen," it contains, for example, subchapters on "The Lost Sense of Sin and What to Do About It," and "What the Bible Can Do for Us." In a word...