Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seniors Survey produced one very interesting comparison with the College Graduate Survey: the matter of income. The seniors say they anticipate making an average $4,500 a year five years from now (those headed for dentistry expect not less than $6,300), an average $6,000 ten years out of college. Those figures are, respectively, almost 50% and 100% too high as compared with the actual salaries reported by college graduates now five and ten years out of college...
...compromise. But on the next leg of his journey, to visit his nephew Regent Abdul Illah of Iraq, Abdullah dropped a hint to the Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...
Next, the Protestants went to the state legislature, but got nowhere. Then they got the so called "anti-garb" issue on the ballot. They passed out leaflets headed: "Where Will This Stop?" Replied one Catholic leader: "The nuns are there practically as a matter of charity. They are needed in our own hospitals and parochial schools." Besides, he added, there were only 75 nuns teaching public school, and less than 5% of their pupils were non-Catholic...
...matter of complete indifference...
...mysterious, short-lived particle, closely connected with the unknown force that holds all matter together...