Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge. Terry's chief extra-curriculum activity was on behalf of the Harvard Athletic Association. On the days of the big games several hundred grads would turn up at the Athletic Association's office asking for duplicates for the tickets they had losten route. It was always a difficult matter to sift out the legitimate ticket-holders from the imposters who took advantage of the situation, and the crowning achievement of Terry's memory was in 1915 when out of five hundred applicants he identified five hundred, and caught, red-handed, three imposters...
...Republicans worry over oil bonds and Democrats try to acquire an issue worth supporting, the leaders of their smaller rivals can have all the fun and none of the troubles. Campaign funds are too small to cause any fear of scandal, speeches can be made just as effectively no matter who the listeners, and there is always the hope that one of them may be a modern David and down the Goliaths...
...effect of Christianity upon temporal and economic matters was by no means the only matter upon which notable opinions were advanced...
...Number 319," he said. "Five thousand pounds," said one of the men at the table, in a voice that sounded as though he thought the matter was now settled for good and all. "Six thousand," said another. "Seven thousand," said the third...
...grades obtained by ten of their respective representatives in a single, albeit general examination. For one thing such judgment further enhances the cardinal importance of examinations and grades a the criteria of education. For another it sets up a definite, tangible measure of comparative educational progress at best a matter of wide interpretative possibility and individual temperament...