Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York police department responded with the assignment of a detail of 400 policemen and appropriate attendant publicity. Now it is one thing for the Communist Party to attempt to make a Keystone Comedy out of the trial; it is another matter entirely for the City of New York to help them. In the first place the presence of that many police says, in effect, that the defendant's followers are ready to use violence against the federal judiciary. But that is the charge upon which the eleven are being tried. Conceivably, the sight of all that blue serge could influence...
February graduates looking for a job on the business end of a large magazine may discuss the matter next week when a representative of Time comes to Harvard to interview prospective trainees, the Student Placement Office announced yesterday...
What had modern life done to U.S. college presidents? Last week, some 400 of them got together in Manhattan to talk the matter over. It was the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges, and the association's retiring president, Kenneth I. Brown, who heads Ohio's Denison University, had a few final words...
...well that all the trustees' wives will be proud of her-but not so well that her teas will run the risk of being distinguished . . . She should join the D.A.R. to show she has ancestors, and then a good proletariat organization ... to show that ancestors don't matter . . . She must keep her home open for the sake of public relations, and her mouth shut for the same reason...
...complicated but predetermined ways. His machine, which he calls a "homeostat," is different. The present model is pretty simple, but it really thinks, he says-at least in the sense that it takes action on its own, according to any change in situation affecting it. So, for that matter, does a seesaw, compass needle, or a sunflower. Dr. Ashby contends that his machine acts in a more complicated way, adjusts itself to a greater variety of circumstances. That, he holds, constitutes thinking...