Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is the U. S. to do with its treasury surplus of $300,000,000?, This question, obviously a matter for experts, has now become a morsel for politicians. Congress, either by action or inaction, at its winter session will probably decide the problem. Several schemes loom...
Though Ferdinand Foch was all but unknown in the U. S. prior to the World War, he enlisted as a private in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and later, after attending the War College, became a professor there (1894) renowned for the soundness of his matter and the brilliant originality of his presentation. He developed a veritable "school" of French officers who gave unusual attention to that evanescent factor which was to prove so vital when the War came: morale...
...prepare the many conflicting tribes for unification and ultimate self-government. This program we have not yet completed. In spite of this the Filipino politicians cry for "complete, immediate and absolute independence." They would prefer (so they tell us in their speeches) a government by their own people, no matter how had, to one in which we have any control...
...Uncle Sam. The facts are that they enjoy as much or more independence than any people in Eastern Asia. Less than four per cent of the officials in the Philippines are Americans. These have been so shorn of their power that they are little more than figureheads in all matters of local government the Filipinos are in complete control. As a matter of fact the Filipino legislature has usurped a large measure of the powers assigned by law to the American executive. Lord Northcliffe pointed out that the Filipinos enjoy a greater measure of liberty than even the various American...
Experiments at Jefferson Laboratory on the nature of the atom, the ultimate particle of matter, are now being conducted by several professors of the Physics Department, it was ascertained yesterday...