Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of fact, LeCorbeiller's eyes grow a little misty when he reflects, "America is the country for General Education par excellence. I sec a tremendous opportunity for adult education here...
Penicillin's toxic or irritant effect is "unimportant," except when it is injected into the spine; then it may cause convulsions. A few patients may get a rash, no matter how the drug is given; sensitivity may follow use of the drug, so it should not be used for minor ailments...
...State Department dug into the matter last week, they unearthed a few more facts. Last year, when Herbert Hoover went to Germany to make a food survey for President Truman, Frank Mason went along, as press-relations man. He had dug up precious prose in Berlin before. As an I.N.S. correspondent after World War I, he had found the log of the U-boat that sank the Lusitania. Also in the Hoover party were Louis Lochner, prewar A.P. bureau chief in Berlin, and Hugh Gibson, onetime ambassador to Belgium. Lochner translated the diaries for Mason, and Gibson is an editorial...
...editor responsible for everything his paper prints? Certainly. Editors often act, however, as if this responsibility did not extend to syndicated columnists. Unlike the rest of the staff, the absentee pundit rarely has to prove or go bail for his facts, or gossip, no matter how irresponsible or erroneous...
Typical reaction of those who flunk the rope picture test: the man is climbing down the rope. (Successful executives usually say he is climbing up.) The boy and woman picture is actually a test of aggressiveness, in which likely subjects see a boy leaving home no matter what his mother says. Less promising subjects see him waiting for her decision, or accepting her command to stay home. The reactions to S.R.I.'s pictures also give clues to such considerations as whether a subject becomes confused or lost in detail (a bad sign), and how active his imagination...