Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact, Professor Rolvaag did attempt a translation of his book and found it rather difficult to put the strength of it out in English. By chance, Mr. Lin coln Colcord of Minneapolis heard of this work. Also, Mr. Colcord did not know Professor Rolvaag but he went to Northfield and suggested to Rolvaag that they get together on this translation. Colcord does not know a word of Norwegian but he and Rolvaag worked a year and a half, Rolvaag reading his manuscripts and trans lating sentence by sentence, Colcord putting it into the English language with the result...
...have not been in Canada long enough to know what you think about Great Britain. But if anybody tells you, or if you read anywhere?no matter by whom it is written?that Great Britain is decadent in any way, that is the biggest mistake in the world today...
...British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin continued last week his tour of Canada (TIME, Aug. 1, 8), he took occasion at each stop for banqueting and festive entertainment to play the matter-of-fact role of "salesman" or "interpreter" of the British Empire...
...President and inasmuch as only the President could put it into effect, prospects for a special session seemed remote. Last week Senators Smoot and Harrison (see TAXATION) joined in a special session call, but the Utah senator seemed primarily and the Mississippi senator considerably interested in the matter of tax reduction rather than in the matter of flood relief. With Mr. Coolidge, as far as is known, still opposed to a special session, it did not seem likely that Congress would meet before its regular time, or long enough before to make much difference to the flooded region...
...Vacuum and Standard of New York state the truth, namely, that, as they fancy it pays them better to deal in cheap Russian oil, they do not care for the rest of the world and especially not for the American oil producers, as Vacuum looks upon the whole matter from the point of view that they are oil traders wishing to buy in the cheapest market and are not concerned with the American crude production? From an exclusively trading point of view this position only seems to be right, but it is a short view and the folly...