Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partial glossary of terms with which First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett will no longer have to cope: beats-mail needing re-addressing or "unknown" bumper-2nd to 4th class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin...
...matter not how straight the gate...
...will also entertain chance visitors to Cambridge and serve to take their minds off the game. Then, if we lose, it will not matter so much; and the bystanders will go home feeling that the game was merely a side-show in the circus, and that the circus itself (Harvard) was rather a jolly and zestful and snappy and "College" place after all. Warwick Potter Scott...
...shifting of responsibility, comes under the same category. The rominal discrepancies, arising from the differences between Mr. Wilbur's and the Admiral's points of view are, however, inessential; the chief idea is that General Mitchell, by keeping up the fight tried to arouse public interest in a matter of vital public concern, until the Government at length took some notice of the situation. If Admiral Magruder's present difficulties have a similar result he will be more than justified...
Most people associate the battle of Bosworth Field with Richard III's offer to barter his kingdom for a lone horse. As a matter of fact, he lest his kingdom anyway, and Henry Richmond, who picked up the crown from a thorn bush and became Henry VII of England was the man who started Britain on the road to the glory and success of the Elizabethan...