Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stack was assassinated. Promptly the British government seized the Egyptian customs, asked, and received, indemnity. So the matter rested, apparently quiet, until the recent outbreak. That the fight for independence continues is demonstrated in the periodic stifling that the British apply to Egyptian politics. A few weeks ago an Egyptian cabinet resigned, unable to obtain its ends against British opposition. Today the same problem confronts the present government. Each successive ministry wants but one thing--Egyptian freedom...
Next day Professor Sheik Kankalouni of the University of El-Azhar, wrote passionately to an Arabic newspaper in Cairo: "The tracts of Zwemer have caused such unrest among our students that, but for the wisdom of the lecturers, the matter might have had most serious results." A like view was taken by the Ministry of Pious Foundations which demanded that officials of the U. S. Legation at Cairo should confiscate from Dr. Zwemer a permit which he has been granted to enable him to visit mosques. Pugnacious Dr. Zwemer stated that he would not give up the permit...
...trip could be more difficult or more hazardous. Because of the constant variation of the compass in such close proximity to the magnetic pole, navigation is a matter of genius. Because the vast area is unexplored, landing in case of emergency becomes a matter of prayer. No ship patrols the frozen reaches of the Arctic; no lighthouse points the way. Said Commander Byrd: "I congratulate him most heartily." Added Lincoln Ellsworth: "My hat comes off to the pluck of a brave gentleman...
...Marion Talley (TIME, March 1, 1926), she would make her debut surrounded with newspaper reporters and home folks. If she made her debut at the Metropolitan (Otto Kahn, Chairman), opera-devotees would again make puns about "You Kahn or you Kahn't," or "What's the matter with Witwer...
...Griggs's first proposal was in regard to the secondary schools themselves. He objected to the focusing of attention on that one-tenth of the students who ultimately reach college, at the expense of the nine-tenths whose formal education ends with school. This is a matter beyond the range of discussion at present, for the logical solution, the early separation of those eligible for university education from other students, is still far in the distance...