Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brewster, that the Senator told me in so many words that if I would agree to merge Trans World Airline [which Hughes controls by owning 46% of its stock] with Pan American and would go along with his community airline bill, there would be no further hearings in this matter...
Editors will feel an urge to jump on Hocking, especially for his parallels, for truth in politics and morals is no matter of applying a multiplication table. But critics can profit by reading his argument to the end, at least for his insistence on the principle that freedom of the press presupposes a specific acknowledgement of moral responsibility by the press. His argument is a rocky path, but along the way he has strewn some bright pebbles of comment and criticism...
...Europe is in peril of becoming totally Communist-dominated. China, largely because of America's betrayal, is threatened thus. In fact, in every part of the world the things that matter most are in jeopardy because of Marxian and other collectivisms. . . . It will take a tidal wave to reverse these anti-God trends and save our nation and our world after the pattern God willed and manifested through His Son. In that process this church and each of us can have a real part...
...report on radioisotopes, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission devoted one sentence to this matter: ". . . should an atomic war occur, it would be essential that as many scientists as possible be trained in the technique of working with radioactive material...
...sums up the Forsterian point of view: "For the first time . . . I felt that humanity existed, and that it existed without clothes. . . . It was naked . . . and all these tubes and buttons and machineries neither came into the world with us, nor will they follow us out, nor do they matter supremely while we are here...