Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roof of Memorial Hall and Mr. Fitts undercoded poem about a synagogue. As a review it is neither a Fortnightly or a transition, but something of both. A definite editorial policy could not do any great harm and it would assure readers in sympathy with that policy of matter to their taste and liking...
...matter how the creators of cultured men feel about it, the fact remains that very few students meet those ancient authors of whose distant fame they have heard since their Gore Hall period, until the melancholy days of Divisionals are near. So the Vagabond was pleasantly surprised to learn that Sophocles' tragedy Electra was being presented at Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. There he found the ancient drama excellently played against a background of temple and poplars, with a cast directed by a former member of the 47 Workshop. With the altruistic spirit typical of better-class Vagabonds, he sought information...
...three persons designated to receive a peerage one has died in the meantime. No matter. The dead man's son, Urban R. Broughton, will receive that to gain which his late, rich father, Urban H. Broughton, perpetrated so many philanthropies-including the donation of Ashridge Park to the nation...
...sound-picture from being as tiresome as you would expect a picture to be in which 1) a night-club entertainer, getting a telegram telling of his mother's illness, sings a song entitled "My Mother's Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small independent company, has overcome difficulties of sound-production which richer producers are still combating with less success...
Certain Buddhist doctrines read curiously like pages from modern scientific treatises. The Buddhist Sutra anticipates the theory of evolution in such statements as "all life emerges from a certain concentration of matter in the form of a nucleus" (i.e., cell). Professor Einstein holds that perception is generally false because relative. Buddhists likewise deny truth to all appearances...