Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also believed, although the Council did not discuss the matter, that financial difficulties played a part in the withdrawal. The teams have encountered heavy expenses in their trips this year and it is known that the treasury has been hard...
...open insurrection mars the tranquillity of the nation's capital in a manner not connected with the usual Congressional disturbances. Probably most people who read the Vice President's demands of last month that his sister be given the social privileges which go to his wife thought the matter would be allowed to end then and there...
Last week, through the Press, the long arm of Rumor reached out and tried to pluck Justice Stone from the sanctity of the supreme chamber and place him at the head of the Law Enforcement Commission which President Hoover is slowly selecting. Annoyed or embarrassed, Justice Stone protested: "The matter has not been proposed to me nor have I it under con sideration or in mind...
...With this in mind I am able to declare that the American Government as a practical matter is disposed to defer to the views of the majority of those countries whose land forces constitute their chief military interest, and in the draft convention before us, to accept their ideas in the matter of trained reserves...
...upon the playing of Sunday tennis except between 2 and 6 o'clock recognize the validity of daylight saving time? In the light of Einsteinian ideas of space-time, one hesitates to get into discussions on this sort of thing, and perhaps it would be wise to leave the matter with the mere positing of the problem. But the fact remains that time is not the same in one place as in another and that by the immutable statute of Massachusetts it is different at different times of the year. The manifold complexities of the problem indicate that...