Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive credence in the matter of her age, TIME requested and received the following telegram: "BORN MARCH TWO 1903 (Signed) Ishbel MacDonald...
...stood unshakable until now, because of its great achievement in rescuing the franc from collapse and more than doubling its gold value. But today, with this crisis passed, and with a general election scheduled for next year, party strife is reviving. The vote last week was on a matter of no intrinsic importance; but it proved, by a count of 265 to 256 against the Cabinet, that Premier Poincaré, though strong, is not unshakable...
...critical opinion of the worth of a fellow undergraduate a hazardous basis for just judgment. Just how much of the character-sketching done in last fall's reports on individual Freshmen written by that species of underclassmen known as Student Advisors possessed any real insight must remain a matter of conjecture...
...reviewer with the prerogative of a recent Editor in Chief to be technical informs us that the new edition "smells"--though the olfactory impression he adds is sweet if not strange. The present Board has been thorough but not especially ingenious in the matter of content and execution, and the result is--just another Red Book with 1930 on the cover. This is in itself in no way a condemnation of the incumbent Board of the Red Book. By its very nature the Red Book has no continuity of personel from year to year. Each group of editors takes...
...rats in some of the Yard dormitories, we received a telephone call from the Department of Preventive Medicine. In the course of the conversation, without expecting to be taken seriously, we asked the doctor if he could use any dead rats. To our surprise he gave the matter serious thought and finally announced, "No! We use the fleas only and the fleas leave when the body gets cold...