Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cohen was not to be appointed. This contradicts Provost Furniss' statement that the case was never decided against Mr. Cohen, but merely "held in abeyance." The committee further stated that when a man's rejection was based on communist affiliation, the department involved would have no voice in the matter...
...Matter of Opinion
...took him along the "pumpkin show" circuit, from Tulsa to Lewiston, Idaho. Race meetings lasted one or two days, and purses were a piddling $100. About 30 vagabond horsemen roamed this circuit, and none ever got rich?or starved?mainly because of a secret mutual-assistance pact that no matter who won a race everybody with a horse in it shared equally in the purse...
...years later, Ben Jones got himself promoted to the post of "head trainer and manager of the Calumet Farm Training Stable," and turned the heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the saddle girths, the horses keep on winning. Financially, it is a family stand-off with each of the Joneses getting a $12,000-a-year salary plus 5% of all purses won by Calumet (or some $160,000 apiece in the last two years...
...oldest forms of science fiction is the "Utopia story," in which a coherent history of an ideal world is sketched out. A popular form is the "prophecy story," in which the consequences of man's inventive ingenuity in, say, rocket ships, are thought out. Subject matter ranges from the zoology of other planets to apocalyptic portraits of the world after it has been destroyed in the Third, Fourth or Fifth World...