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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fixed Ideas. Sawyer also issued a pointed warning to farmers and labor-the sharpest rebuke yet heard from a member of the Truman Administration. "Some so-called liberals," he said, "have adopted . . . the fixed idea that any increase in purchasing power of any one group is good no matter what its effect may be on other groups. To assume, however, that we can continue at all times and places to increase the share of the worker and the farmer without concern for the need for capital savings and the incentive of the businessman is out of keeping with the liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Around Right End | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Religion," he said, "is not primarily a matter of beliefs but a blend of aesthetic and moral attitudes." His opponent claimed that these "attitudes" could not exist without beliefs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 Attend Wild, Aiken Discussion | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...territories. South Africa has refused to transmit reports on South-West Africa, which it received under a League of Nations mandate in 1922. Three resolutions passed by the General Assembly have censured the South Africans for this policy, and ten days ago the U.N. voted to send the whole matter to the World Court...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...care how much each student gives," Crouse said. "It's just a matter of gaining 100 percent participation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Seeking Money to Build New Graduate Center | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard, the Student Council, the Liberal Union, and the American Veterans Committee have written Washington on the matter, but none of these groups have yet received any replies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Refuses to Change 'Loyalty Oath' Wording | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

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