Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be that these people have nothing to say. But it's difficult to talk when you're smothered by such amateur symbolism as: "Oh Dante, I'm in hell" (Handy). Perhaps it's just a matter of getting the words out right and putting the paragraphs in order, techniques which can be acquired. Anyway, isn't it pretty to think...
...paralyzing strike had started Oct. 1 over "a matter of principle": Should the steel companies foot the whole bill for employees' pensions and insurance (as proposed by President Truman's fact-finding board), or should the Steelworkers chip in for some of the cost? But as time passed, as distress hit the steel towns and major segments of U.S. industry began to stifle for lack of steel, Phil Murray and Bethlehem decided to get down from abstract principle and talk cents...
Army brass tried to block them, but Yamashita's lawyers wangled an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A majority of the high justices in Washington, without passing on the fairness of Yamashita's trial, refused to accept jurisdiction. They declared it was a matter for MacArthur to review. SCAP's chief promptly hailed Yamashita's conviction as "beyond challenge," and sentence was executed...
Incorrigible Punster Marx often uses the double play on words-no matter how obvious it is-to make his misanthropic points ("I used to think a dowry was where you got milk-until I got married. I got milked plenty then"). He can affect poor hearing if it will make a gag go: once he pretended to think a woman described herself as a "monster" instead of a "spinster" ("Oh well," he said, winding up the whole discussion, "there isn't a great deal of difference...
...matter what you buy in an average day, one of your purchases is likely to help the University financially. Harvard's endowment is spread over the industrial world in small investments here and there...