Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Over 43,840 Rural Free Delivery routes mailmen journeyed 398,444,130 miles to carry postal matter to 24,812,000 persons at a cost...
...them perished in the terrible gale: But all that was heard was a single turn- There was just one beat of the Indian drum. The folks of the village were sad and glum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" They said to their chief: "What's the matter with the drum?" "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" The big chief smiled: "Smart drum," said he, "Man and his wife, him one, you see." "Turn, turn, turn, turn., turn, turn, turn, Turn, ti-ti-um, turn, turn, turn, turn!" JOHN C. WRIGHT...
...prove his point. A spur to his arguments was the uncomfortable fact that I. P. & P. had a four-year contract to supply Publisher William Randolph Hearst with newsprint at a price range of $50 to $55 a ton, and breaking a contract with Publisher Hearst is a difficult matter...
...general, the surplusage and consequent confusion of our great . . . art museums is a matter of daily and just comment. Moreover, the prevalent jumboism encourages capricious, ill advised exhibition . . . to adorn . . . great spaces. . . . When I first saw the Pennsylvania Museum, it contained the queerest hall I ever visited. . . . The hall of small personal bequests . . . filled with small showcases of ... uniform size each containing the artistic remains of some patrician lady of Philadelphia ... a cashmere shawl or a Spanish mantilla ... a pooi filigree box from Genoa, a bad Indian bronze or two..a few mediocre miniatures ... an enameled snuffbox of doubtful period...
...former is the logical-method of reaching every voter; but it has opposed to it the extra time required, a slight additional expense, and the important matter of intelligent voting, which is doubtless aided by the presence of candidates photographs at a more accessible place than in the Red Books in the rooms of 600 Seniors. In any case, this method deserves trial, though it is probably too late for the present committee to employ...