Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoke-bomb went off in the book department of the Harvard Cooperative Society at 11 a.m. yesterday, and brought 10 fire engines and a host of police officials to the scene in a matter of minutes...
When Jaako Mikkela vallantly sends his Varsity cross-country squad up against Rhode Island State this afternoon at Franklin Park, it's going to be strictly a matter of amateurs against professionals...
...Free Enterprise Society is small, it is not highly organized, it loves our "American system" and hates any kind of totalitarianism, fascistic, communistic, or otherwise, and even if it were fascistic, as a few people seem to think it is, it doesn't have enough influence to matter. So why bother with...
...based, and to accompany it by two indispensable additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary for intelligent intercourse with one another; and second, inculcations of a set of virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellow men and with the honor of his government, and it is therefore no matter of pride but rather of stein...
...story doesn't greatly matter: a bluffing old Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...