Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Regardless of how the family might feel about it, the fact of the matter is that out here you can't stop people insisting that your pa has got to stand for a third term...
...Stone, in separate opinions, found nothing in the U. S. Constitution to render Federal salaries immune. In a concurring opinion, Justice Frankfurter observed: "Whether Congress may, by express legislation, relieve its functionaries from their civic obligations to pay the benefits of the State governments under which they live, is matter for another...
...Stop Hitler" movement initiated by Great Britain after the seizure of Czecho-Slovakia petered out ignominiously last week. Adolf Hitler was not likely to be stopped so far as Britain and France were concerned. British (and, for that matter, French) prestige fell to new lows on the Continent...
...developed faculty for showmanship. Odd thing about Dali is that these qualities are apparently all of a piece with his art, yet his art has importance. Every Dali show since his first in Paris ten years ago has interested critics because 1) the art of painting needs fresh subject matter; 2) psychoanalysis has focused attention on dreams; 3) Dali seems able to recreate their haunting confusion, scale and illumination...
...best romantic version are Author Bernard's descriptions of Tibet-a more spectacular Arizona-and of magnificent Tibetan handicraft and art works. But even realists are likely to gag at his matter-of-fact details of Tibetan life: of monks who take special pride in a lifetime's grime that encrusts their golden robes; of communal toilets in open streets; of Tibetan burials, in which corpses are coiled as at birth, then hacked to pieces and fed to vultures...