Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average U.S. citizen found the President's food-saving program pretty frustrating. If foodless days had been decreed by law, the thing would have become a sporting matter of eating and dodging the Feds. But being put on the honor system had thrown the country into a nail-biting state of indecision, and also seemed to make it feel hungry...
...cars, cut back and picked up a streetear for interference, and made it across the street without breaking stride. A string of Crimson flags and the usual knot of athletic characters in front of Leavitt & Peirce shifted his attention from the young thing in front of him to the matter of the afternoon's entertainment...
...everyday matter for William Blake to converse with the ghost of a flea or Milton's apparition, and his works are clearly those of a man who saw "A world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower." The subject matter of most of the paintings in the present exhibit, the Book of Job and the Divine Comedy, completely suit the artist's mystical nature; only such a man could tear from the delicate medium of watercolors all the horror and ecstasy of Job's sufferings and Dante's revelation...
...social stairease to fame, the naval captain arrives in town to win her love shortly before he leaves to win Battle of the Nile. On his return, they begin to realize that their respective mates would be something less than overjoyed with divorces, but, after struggling with the matter for a few years, they take a house in England until he is called forth to Trafalgar and his death. While a few of the love-seenes suffer somewhat from Miss Leigh's overenthusiasm, Olivier rescues most of them with his usual fine performance...
...Harvard Union is not a delightful place. To a Freshman who has waited half an hour for a meal, it is considerably less than delightful. He will finish his dessert in a hurry, and leave, no matter whether there is a meeting of the debating club at the Union or the speech of a prominent European. To him the Union is the place where he has to eat, but it is not a social center. So the Freshman doesn't have a social center; he waits anxiously--to move into a House, and until then he is often completely lost...