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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of fact, Art classified Army, Cornell, and Stanford among the "top 15 teams in the nation," and further commented that if Harvard comes through its first four games (Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Army) with a 50-50 record, the Crimson will be a definite power in the East...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...skip these chapters, if you will, and, if you will, read only the excerpts from actual testimony. This is the meat of the matter, and the point must not be missed. The point is that a private enterprise system is making the fatal mistake of impinging on the one really sacred piece of private property: private opinion. If nothing else, Rogge's book is a reminder of a truth we must not forget; that in America, freedom is, among other things, a state of mind...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

Before long, students were jumping up and offering everything from pocket change to folding money. Thirteen pledged $100 apiece or more. One, planning to repair his car, pledged his $100 with a shout of "Goodbye, jalopy!" Within a matter of minutes they had pledged some $2,000, but they weren't through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Student Affair | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...will forget the speed with which its interior lights up and stays lit with a significance almost too delicate to name." Such stories do not date, for, as Van Doren says, they deal with timeless events, "and once Hawthorne is truly among them he is master of the simple matter they contain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twice-Told Biography | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...only thing standing in the way of another U. S. Russian meeting on lining the Berlin blockade is the simple matter of a telephone call, a State Department spokesman said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: China Reds Claim Big Win; Byrd Attacks School Aid Bill | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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