Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university broke another custom by letting "the pride of Virginia, Mr. George Catlett Marshall," speak at the convocation. He recalled wartime conferences with Britons. The idea of understanding lighted his words again, this time with warmth. "We almost invariably reached agreement no matter how complex the issue...
...never win the old people," one Communist frankly told me, "so we must educate the youth our way." They handpick the teachers, and even have a "social commission" to control all exams and make sure that every pupil is "correct" in his social thinking before he can pass, no matter how high his scholastic grades...
Ministries That Matter. The Communists have not formally opened their fifth battle, against their own present allies, the Socialists. But both parties know it will come. One Socialist M.P. told me: "We provide nearly all the government's support; the Communists have all the power." The Socialists do have six cabinet ministers, including Premier Joseph Cyrankiewicz. But the Communists manage the ministries that matter. They control the army, the secret police, education, military courts (where the significant trials are held), foreign trade, and Poland's entire economic life...
...more science looks at solid matter, the less solid it looks. Physicists decided long ago that matter was mostly emptiness, with atomic nuclei scattered thinly through it like stars in space and electrons orbiting around them. Last week, Dr. Robert L. Thornton of the University of California reported that even the nuclei are not very solid...
President of Wellesley Student Government Nancy Bartram '48 said that she had great faith that girls would conduct themselves "wisely, and in a manner befitting a Wellesley student." Adding that the matter would probably be left entirely to the discretion of each individual, she expressed the belief that according to Wellesley's present policy, no special rules would result from any change in the University parietal rules...