Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mail, and opening some of it, too. In despair, last week, Postmaster Crick resigned and enlisted in the Navy. Therefore Sir William Mitchell Thomson, His Majesty's Postmaster General, was earnestly besought to send a Welshman to juggle polysyllables in Sailor Crick's stead. Darkly brooding upon this matter, Sir William fretfully observed to correspondents that "doubts exist whether the spelling of the town's name really...
Said Banker Merrill Veach: "It's a matter of financial ease...
...seems that the Russian government gained the impression that we wanted a slice of Russia or something like that," said Mr. Ford. "As a matter of fact, we want to help Russia. We want to help all foreign countries...
Costes raged and rushed to Le Bourget field outside Paris. Mechanics warned him that his motor was not in perfect tune, No matter; he would go. And as night set in he pulled his controls. The motor stuttered yet lifted him clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground...
...matter of records the Harvard players have an uncertain edge over their rivals: for while both have defeated St. Paul's by about equal scores, Yale was able to register only a 3 to 1 win over the Dartmouth freshmen, whom the Crimson men overwhelmed...