Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting the problem of unemployable youth he would at least make them skillful drones during the incubation period. "Now, and not at some indefinite time to come, education should be integrated with life and kept integrated for all time to come," Dr. Prosser stated. But it is a matter of taste and not of logic whether or not one accepts his leveling integration and decides that vocational training is better than traditional discipline. The superior student would suffer; the average student might benefit...
...absolute and that the Masters are not deprived of a very necessary discretionary slack--is very desirable. But concentration upon criteria alone is a profitless business, for exposition of standards by no means solves the admissions question. A certain amount of injustice and error must be fatalistically accepted. No matter how definite the criteria, and no matter how reasonable, these are, the complexity and the human element involved make imperfection a foregone conclusion...
Feature of the '42 pitching staff is the fact that no matter which hurler takes the mound, the other two have sure outfield berths reserved, for both Pitchford and Reddy hit .300 or over on the training trip, with Clay close behind...
...matter of fact, the Varsity gridders may get their first taste of outside work today unless it warms up suddenly and the fields surrounding the stadium are turned into a quagmire. This is possible because the spring frost is still in the ground...
...matter of fact I think my success as a writer is due almost entirely to my lack of education. You see, some people have called me a literary stylist, but that's not al all true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...