Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lampy's bender is a matter of history...
That this discovery is likely to become a matter of considerable importance to astronomers and also to geologists and geophysicists as made evident by the fact that the variation is nearly ten times that which thus far can be accounted for on theoretical grounds...
...regulation undoubtedly will be passed by the Student Council for future committees. I sincerely hope that this year's difficulty is now closed and should like to state that I am not in sympathy with any attempts to continue the matter further. Robert Reinhart...
...Tibetan and Chinese pantheons are less international, but their composite character does nevertheless present serious problems to the student of mythology. Most of those problems still await a solution, and the histories of many divinities must be written before a complete Buddhist mythology can be composed. As a matter of fact Buddhist mythology presents a maze complicated by the different way in which the Indian names are treated by the Buddhist of Tibet, China, and Japan Some of those names are translated, others are transcribed by the non-Indian Buddhists and still others represent a mixture of the two methods...
...gloriously won, in spite of tactical errors at Shiloh, brutal human waste at Cold Harbor, Grant was unfortunately awarded the presidency. He knew nothing about politics or human character, neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...