Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amid the war of elements, the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds" descends from Parnassus (8 Arlington Street, Boston) an editor of an ancient Palladium of liberty and literature, mounts his grey gelding and rides forth to conquest...
...conference, to emerge with two formal statements for the press. The President had called him home, the Marshall statement said, to talk things over. The President was chiefly concerned about "the intransigent attitude of the Soviet government during the debate on the atomic problem." They had discussed the Vinson matter. "The President decided it would not be advisable to take this action. The matter was then dropped." The Secretary had heard talk of a split between the President and himself. "There is no foundation for this," he said...
...peace. All the world knows that this is true. The Soviet Union may pretend it cannot understand . . . That an effort should be made to deprive two and one-half million men, women & children of medicines and food and fuel and clothing . . . may seem to some a small matter. But . . . we cannot be callous to the suffering of millions . . . We are well aware of course that . . . the Soviet authorities made an offer to feed all of Berlin ... nearly a month after the blockade had been imposed . . . The German population recognized [the offer] for the political bribery...
...admire them, I think their effect on their contemporaries and juniors has been catastrophic. To distort before you can represent is like trying to dance before you can walk." But, argued Mortimer, "modern painting is no more difficult to understand than modern poetry, modern music, or, for that matter, modern science...
...Mirror also pulled a neat trick in the matter of price. A recent price rise to 7? has cut street sales of other papers. The Mirror outmaneuvered rival papers by sneaking into the field (with a modest 100,000 circulation guarantee) at a nickel...