Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...item in the dispatches is revealing in its matter-of-factness. "Both sides are looting and making heavy extortions from the populace." There have probably been few cases in history in which war has been so much at the expense of the inhabitants as in the struggles in modern China, and the stream of refugees and emigrants to the distant but more tranquil Manchuria will probably be greater than ever this year. There the international competition is still present to add to the complication, as is shown by rumors of Russian generals or Japanese money backing one or the other...
...President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Charles Evans Hughes named a special committee to scrutinize bankruptcy law administration, "a matter of very grave concern...
...undertaken [applause]. ... I do not know what my French colleagues think when they hear their speeches translated by Mr. Camerlynck into the English tongue. But I know what I always think when I hear my speeches translated into the French tongue, which is that it is a matter of most agreeable surprise to think that I have lapsed into such unusual felicity [laughter]. If all my colleagues around this table entertain the same views that I do-and I believe they do-they will thank me for setting myself up as their mouthpiece and giving to our friend Mr. Camerlynck...
...tall impetuous Teuton held the Reparations stage in Paris all last week. Speaking for Germany in gruff, rasping English, he seemed to epitomize the Nietzschean commandment, " Behard!" As a matter of fact anyone who has been spoken to for five minutes by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, and, today, Chairman of the German Delegation to the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Feb 11), knows that the man is as drastically metallic as his pistol-shot name-Schacht...
...these hopes were dashed when it was learned that Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Church had been chosen (unanimously) as President of the Council for the next four years, as this action seems to make certain that the matter, instead of going from bad to better is going from bad to worse-if that be possible...