Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Competition in such a field as advertising obviously has its own reward in the financial results it obtains for the product advertised. No matter how carefully it conforms to ethical and artistic standards a campaign's success cannot be claimed until the sales records are used as proof. The correspondence of this measure of success with that of the Bok standards is apparent to anyone who examines the list of previous winners. Business is not in the habit of seeking more advanced standards without some practical motive, and it is a tribute to the judgement of Mr. Bok that...
...rumored that President Little's resignation came as the result of friction between him and the Board of Regents, and even if such a rumor were true it probably had its origin in some conflict over a matter of policy. If such were the case, it would not be the first one in which a president of an American college had been forced to give up his position due to pressure from some governing board. On the other hand there are even more numerous cases of smaller executives resigning from their positions in order to continue research which they considered...
...honesty was Michigan's McLeod who foresaw that if Congress continued to flaunt the Constitution, it would be necessary to create a new party or "Constitutional Bloc" which would "prevent the waning of the Constitution through improper teaching or lack of teaching," and "purge the supreme law of matter properly only the subject for legislation...
...relativity theory, which he phrased within only three printed pages, made time & space the creator of matter. Newton believed space independent of time. Some 3-775 books have been written to explain Einstein relativity and its implications in cosmic mechanics...
...recalcitrant lover, a timidly lecherous golfer whose eyebrows kept going back on him whenever he saw a pretty girl, was Jack Haley, an infallible absurdity. When he broached the matter of his grandmother's bed, someone suggested that it was probably one of those beds George Washington had slept in. "We could never get Grandma to admit it." said the unilateral Haley. More samples of locker room esprit were forthcoming; John Sheehun, a sturdier comedian, described taking a bath as "dunking the body...