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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most difficult task would be to convince the military, which seemed as ready as the diplomats to go on waiting for the dust to settle, no matter what was buried under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Time for Action? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...about how householders should leave their garbage, the council decided to draft its ordinance No. 2, expressing its own ideas for garbage disposal in the model city. This time it was mad, and so were the townspeople who crowded its meeting. But whether they had any rights in the matter was still to be decided-by AEC's lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Model City | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had arrived at a universal truth as she flew into New York with her grandmother to spend the Christmas holidays in the U.S. Asked if she preferred Englishmen to American men, she said thoughtfully: "Men are men, no matter where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...like to live in a glass house. Harvard had finished the most calamitous season on record (one victory, eight defeats), and the Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Change of Heart | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout and Sheldon Keck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fake? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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