Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator Valdemaras promptly wired back his refusal to come and explain. Matter postponed indefinitely...
...Council took up once more the five-year-old Transylvanian land dispute between Rumania and Hungary. Just as some progress seemed about to be made, last week, Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu burst into tears, and threatened to withdraw if pressed to make concessions. Matter postponed to the 50th Council session next June...
When one is only six months old and only the second daughter of an Emperor, what does it matter if one dies of pneumonia...
...evolution of the animal depends on the development of the upper brain: the greater the development the more complicated the conditioned reflexes become. The ability to learn by experience, which is simply a matter of conditioning the reflexes, increases; the animal can adjust to ever more varied environments. Man has the most intricately convoluted upper brain of the whole animal kingdom and can therefore adapt himself to a wide range of conditions...
...tariff. Smith is a Democrat; but in these days of scrambled politics it does not follow that a Democrat--especially a Democrat from an industrial State--is necessarily a free trader. How far Smith would go in the matter of tariff reduction is an open question...