Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Locker rooms were quiet after the Blue-bloody contest was called to a halt by doctors. The Big Red cohorts accepted their win as a matter of course, and sat around the training tables quietly after their standard fifth of physiotherapy. (Training is being maintained because of anticipated Post-Season Bowl bids...
...Teachers' colleges stress psychology, teaching methods-all kinds of high-powered hooey . . . but give little attention to the subject matter which they may later have to teach...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, arriving in Manhattan for yet another vacation, were met by 50-odd reporters and cameramen, but refused to be stampeded. Said the Duke: the wedding-invitation thing was "purely personal and a family matter." The Duchess-in navy blue coachman suit with a compromise-length coat, a blue-and-brown turban, beige gloves, a mink fur piece, a pearl necklace -answered the other big question quite frankly. She thought that "people should wear skirts at the length most becoming...
There are few people who would not be directly affected by one or more of these proposals. Every single proposal is likely to be anathema to some particular economic group. Mr. Turman was particularly brave in proposing wage ceilings for certain industries--a matter which several commentators had already concluded he would not dare to touch...
When Baziotes begins a painting he has no idea how it will turn out. "The subject matter may be revealed in the middle of the work," he explains, "or I may not recognize it until a long time afterward." Instead of starting with something in nature, he begins by doodling. Each morning he lines his doodles-in-progress up against the walls of his studio. "They are my mirrors," he says. "They tell me what I am like at the moment...