Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Nov. 21, 1927, p. 27, under the heading "Manuscripts" you told of the recent finding of a manuscript play by Oscar Wilde, or as you called him, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. The matter I wish to speak about is extremely small, but, knowing TIME'S desire for accuracy in all things, I offer a correction. Mr. Wilde was commonly called Oscar Wilde, but he was christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Obviously it was your intention to give Wilde's name in full, but you omitted the Fingal. The Encyclopaedia Britannica also omits...
...took a cigaret, lit it, and went over and stood beside him. He said: 'This is a hell of a Christmas.' I asked him what was the matter and he replied: 'Everything is the matter.' I gathered from his mutterings that things were not all right with him in his domestic life. In this same conversation the President told me that there were things going on in the public business that he didn't approve but that he was helpless to stop them...
Instead of having the entire fall to prepare for an innovation so directly dependent on its cooperation, the Library has been obliged to make preparation in a matter of days. The nuisance has been passed on to the student, who cannot learn what books he will be obliged to buy until he is told what books the Library will be able to supply...
...light a document which it must be confessed is entirely new in form and substance to the majority of members of the University. Certain changes, making for greater efficiency, have been effected--including supervision of class elections, class funds, and a reorganization in council voting machinery. Otherwise the matter of most interest to undergraduates will be found in Section E, "Powers of the Council...
...deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book "is designed to serve as an intellectual, clean and honest argument for the side which it represents." Whether it is as conclusive an argument as it seems remains (as all arguments without umpires must remain) a matter of opinion...