Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advocating the establishment of a uniform minor sport award the Harvard Athletic Committee at its last meeting also took action on the question. A committee of three Seniors, composed of A. S. Woodworth '29, chairman, A. E. French '29, and Hulburd Johnson '29 was appointed to look into the matter and report to the committee at its June meeting. An effort will be made to sound out the undergraduate feeling and find the best possible solution...
...industrial (i. e., non-beverage) purposes has been and remains one of its vitally important functions. True, last week's formation of General Industrial Alcohol Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League or to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Indeed, the U. S. public in general probably took scant interest in the facts that the new company will manufacture annually some 5,000,000 gallons of denatured alcohol, that it will be eighth largest...
...macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death in the form of a corpse, or a jar of human ashes, or eyes with the light gone out of them. Approximating novels in manner and matter two of the longest represent the author at his best. The first, "The Cat That Lived at the Ritz," is a shrewd and rather cruel story of an American spinster whose corpse, lying in the Paris Ritz, is robbed by her fake-duchess friend and guarded by her lifelong enemy...
...operation and the Government, has never proved effective in the manufacture of a disinterested or reliable newspaper. The fact that such type of ownership is usually concealed as long as possible is another proof that it is often dangerous in its purpose." Said the New York Evening Post: "No matter how much Mr. Graustein may protest, the sound sense of the public will know that it is bad public policy to have an important and constantly increasing group of newspapers under the ownership of a great public utility corporation. The International is hurting the standing of American journalism...
...matter of the expense of evening operation should not prove difficult. The stockroom might be closed at 7 o'clock without great inconvenience to evening workers. In many courses, a definite scheme of analysis in a laboratory manual is followed, and instructors would be unnecessary. Only an occasional man need be retained, to keep order and insure the safety of the building...