Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the circumstances it is understandable that ... an occasional teacher under provocation would lapse in the matter of corporal punishment. That any of these teachers "hated" children simply...
...Matter of Minutes. Royall summoned Johnston and his colleagues, the firemen's David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes...
...matter how Oregon went, the returns would not cut much ice at the Philadelphia convention...
Last week, during a twelve-hour session, the deputies debated whether the Russians had actually charged that American soldiers had "bitten old ladies" in Berlin streets, or whether the Russian interpreter had meant "beaten." The matter was referred to the nonfunctioning Control Council. Next day, the Russians announced that they would be unable to attend the next Kommandatura meeting either...
...India," said Kipling cynically, "is a place beyond all other where one must not take things too seriously-the midday sun always excepted. Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much . . . drink . . . Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit...