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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cried Browder later: "A beautiful reception. The students were beautifully behaved." The American Civil Liberties Union congratulated President Seymour. Whooped the New York Daily News: 3,000 BOOLA Boo BROWDER AT YALE. But the World-Telegram, which believes that the Browder menace is no laughing matter, hissed: "Liberalism ... has its sophomore class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Browder at Yale | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...invested) in the business. Nor could Commonwealth & Southern rob Consumers Power even by buying its stock at 1? a share: Commonwealth & Southern already owns 100% of the common stock of its subsidiary, and regardless of price will still own 100% after the transaction it proposes. For that matter, Commonwealth & Southern would lose nothing by paying $1,000,000 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...eighteenth century Japanese prints by Utagawa Toyakuni, one of the finest craftsmen Japan has ever produced. The prints, which are being shown on the first floor of the museum, are primarily humorous and satirical renditions of the actors who lived during the time of the artist. The subject matter is handled so skillfully that it is not necessary to know anything about the characters who are portrayed; depth and interest are implicit in the technique. In certain of the pieces, for example, especially the few which represent the comedians, the systematic repetition of line motifs is exaggerated to such...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...retire to inactivity immediately or unearth some issues on which to go to work. Quite conceivably, a situation may explode at Harvard where fundamental principles of academic freedom are actually flouted. But there is time enough when that moment comes to form the necessary committee to deal with the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALLY FROM THE IVORY TOWER | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...Ritz bar may be one of the latter. Others are valuable, but hardly educational in the Conant-Landis-Hutchins sense: Phillips Brooks House might be mentioned. Many others, however, actually do help to readjust the educational balance which is now so heavily on the side of subject matter, so far from the ideal of method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELF-INOCULATION | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

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