Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misadventure occurred in Paris, where I had to pay the hotel bill in a hurry to make the airport. It seemed rather steep, and I found later that they had inadvertently thrown in all the previous day's laundry bills for other tenants of the small hotel. The matter has since been adjusted. By the time we got to London the children's shoes were worn through and, shoe rationing having gone off for the first time in seven years, we reshod them there...
Such fears seem exaggerated. Going out on strike is a serious matter for the worker. For a period of time, he is giving up his livelihood to fight for something he supposedly believes in. There can be no apathy about so drastic an action. If a worker is willing to strike, the chances are that he is aware of his willingness and is ready to participate in the strike vote. In administering the law, it is important that the Commonwealth guarantee every union a convenient time and place for the balloting. Otherwise the law may damage the union's bargaining...
...Since then, twelve states have held "that a mari is entitled to redress for the unauthorized appropriation of his name or picture for trade purposes. But . . . the publication of news is not a trade purpose. No one can stop the use of his name or photograph if they are matters of public interest, no matter how much it hurts...
Freeman, who has a maxim for everything, likes to say, "One of the great things about life is to keep movin' and not hurry, and that's largely a matter of schedulin' your day." To run on his timetable, not only Freeman himself but everyone about him has to keep moving. He gets up early-really early. He is up at 2:30, after five or six hours' sleep. (Back in 1940 his rising hour was 4:30, but, says Freeman, "the temptation always is to sneak up a few minutes earlier.") Every activity...
...researcher's notes on white, blue, pink and yellow slips are arranged to correspond to the biographical plan he has carefully outlined in his notebooks. By the use of an ingenious system of numbers and symbols he can turn to any scrap of material he needs in a matter of seconds. After he has written a chapter, he "lets it cool" for a month and then his revisions always "cut the first draft to pieces." After the fourth typing he sticks to what he has, unless he or his researcher, Dr. Gertrude Richards, belatedly turns up important new material...