Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rights of all of us under the Bill of Rights are essentially if not technically violated. The double jeopardy remains double jeopardy, no matter how divided by the refinements of language...
...matter of fact, state detectives had been in the Mirror's office during these two days examining the evidence the tabloid men had compiled. 'Well, there's nothing left to do but arrest Mrs. Hall,' they announced after they had completed their inspection. 'We'll arrest her tomorrow night...
...matter where Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins goes he finds friends to greet him with that affectionate regard which able men yield to an able, modest confrere. It may be at New Haven, Manhattan, Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, Berlin, where he has studied; or at Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cambridge, (Mass.) , Cambridge (Eng.), Princeton, Chicago, Washington or elsewhere, where he has received honorary degrees; in the U. S., England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, where he belongs to learned societies; or Japan...
...game) rather than borrowed, I do not demand my money back. There was a so-called quip in the issue about a man having a quarter and not knowing whether to buy "Snappy Stories" or the "Tiger", and the newsdealer replying. "Aw, what's the matter with the quarter anyhow?" I cannot help but wonder whether the writer didn't foresee my paying my quarter for the Lampoon. Of course there was no question of comparing the Lampoon to "Snappy Stories", but at least I think I would have done better by investing in "St. Nicholas...
...Lobarno perish and the League of Nations fall; but the Big Three must and shall be preserved. There will be conversations and negotiations about this high matter. If necessary, all Harvard graduates and undergraduates--barring the Lampoon squad--will sign a humble policy and remonstrance. Let us have peace and the game. And a pleasing little incident of Saturday's game with Cambridge was the capture of the Harvard goal posts by the conquerors. This is a common pastime of our intellectual youth. The combination of malicious mischief and larceny is irresistible to the academic mind. The Princetonian stand excused...