Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closing the review was a matter of standing off the impatient Production department until the final version was double checked for accuracy. By that time all of the Business researchers were working on the story. When it was all in, Business & Finance took a belated holiday, and Researcher Stoddard finally got her Christmas cards mailed...
...Threat. The commissioners were not panic-stricken; they were measured and matter-of-fact. But the U.S. was under definite threat, they said. They saw no hope that the United Nations would develop "in time" the authority to prevent another war. The threat, they reported, could be divided into two parts. The first was Phase I, which was the turbulent present, when the world at any moment could blunder into war. If war came in Phase I, it would come by accident, not from design. No potential enemy of the U.S. was yet prepared for war. The commissioners found...
Doutis said his fiancee's 90-year-old grandfather had been beaten to death; she herself had fled from her village, and her dowry was seized. This was an important matter, because it is tough to marry when there is no dowry...
...flouted Hollywood tradition by announcing the breakup of her marriage in a barely audible voice. (The marriage, to 45-year-old Scenarist Felix Jackson, was her second.) Deanna had her attorney murmur simply: "There is no difficulty ... of any particular public interest. Each of them declines to discuss the matter...
Varsity opinion on the matter appeared to be divided, however, as sources close to the team pointed out that it "just isn't done. The janitor is never promoted above the secretary." In the current Crimson coaching heresy, Boston is outranked by Bob Margarita, Hal Kopp, and Harry Jacunski, Harlow's line and backfield assistants last fall...