Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentry who attempt the magazine's printed matter-freshmen, members of the various Harvard clubs across the country. Boston newspaper reporters, rival collegiate magazines, and the postal department-must have full confidence in the Lampoon's strangely bloated reputation as a humorous magazine. (A small but effective survey just concluded by this department has revealed that the majority of people who consider the lampoon to be funny have neither read it nor seen it. Few people questioned admitted to not having heard of it, however, though some were under the impression that it was the University's daily newspaper...
...matter what the critics say about "A Touch," they had better keep their pencils sharpened. Ivy plans to keep on making movies come what may, as long as the money lasts. Hollywood, beware-and the devil take J. Arthur Rank...
...matter how many seconds and thirds the combined Harvard-Yale track team racks up when it meets the Oxford-Cambridge team here on the twentieth; it will be firsts and only firsts that count. This is because the British and not the American system of scoring is traditionally used in the international series...
...only schoolbook that ever baffled him was Quackenbos' Principles of Rhetoric. No matter how he struggled, young Archibald Henderson of Salisbury, N.C. could not understand it. Finally one day his teacher blew up, slammed the Principles shut, threw the book at Henderson, and sent him from his classroom forever. "In Quackenbos," recalls Archibald Henderson, "I met my master...
...only a matter of days before the big invasion, when some 150,000 graduating college seniors would fan out over the workaday U.S. in search of jobs. What kind of people would they turn out to be? This week, after interviewing deans, campus placement bureaus, business recruiters and seniors, FORTUNE gave an answer...