Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disastrous to the UN, and that at present this failure seems most likely. The UN has no army because member nations can't agree on which country should give what, and how forces should be used--they are worried about losing "sovereignty." And, of course, there is the matter of financing a program that could run way over the budget allotment. Thus, opponents state, the UN should have established the army first...
...would never, as a Roman Catholic priest, debate with a boy on whether the Church were the true one or not. That is a matter of teaching and not an academic question," he said...
...fellows thought it looked like nothing more nor less than Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted the mural sketch back; they got it, together with a promise that Collins would be permitted to finish...
...Charles Waterton. Investigating the rest of him is like entering a maze that turns out to have been planned as a staggering hoax. Many (including Novelist Norman Douglas and Poet Edith Sitwell) have been lured down the winding trails that appear to lead to the Watertonian heart of the matter-only to find that a conglomeration of blind alleys is, itself, the mysterious center of the weird and wonderful meanderer. Biographer Richard (The Duke) Aldington, in the most complete work on Waterton to date, explores the maze more thoroughly, but still finds no adequate explanation...
None of the Harvard groups that recently voted to take action on the informer clause issue have received replies to their letters to Washington. These groups include the Student Council, the American Veterans Committee chapter, and the Liberal Union, all of whom have been studying the matter...