Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formerly but more in the United States than in 1900. The exact number given by a recent report of the department of agriculture is 17,000,000 and 5,000,000 mules, or about one to every five persons." This is a false impression, for the facts of the matter are that the horses have been steadily decreasing. In fact, there were 3,189,000 less horses in this country the first of this year than the corresponding date of 1920. I am also enclosing a booklet called "The Horse Situation, Facts Regarding Number and Value of Horses...
...Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...
...intend to use this incident to force a showdown in the matter of flights in China. We intend to hold the wings. We have not the force to meet British imperialism, but we intend to let the world know what they are doing...
...apogee of elegance, is hardly high enough to reach for an heiress. Humbled for, the first time, he trudges back to his dining-room. There she discovers him. Being a democratic U. S. girl, the heiress graciously trots into the kitchen after the dejected one, inquires "What does it matter, anyway?" smoothes the lofty complacency that has suffered its first and only ruffle. Ernst Vajda, Hungarian playwright, wrote the scenario for this most delightful of recent films...
Disappointed but not downcast, Dr. Reisner hunted further, in recesses of the Cheops Pyramid itself. Last May he found the tomb of one of Cheops' granddaughters and a canopic box containing organic matter in a yellowish liquid. Perhaps the organic matter was Queen Hetep-Heres' entrails, removed before mummification. But her mummy was still missing...