Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have long experience in this matter, and I can assure the House that it is most improvident to get rid of the vital weapon you have until you have a better one to put in its place. What has happened to the enormous masses of artillery? . . . What have we ... in organized and equipped formations that can be sent abroad or brought into action in this country...
...popularly referred to without the Rev. or Mr.) is considered England's top evangelist. His success as a fisher of men lies perhaps in his combination of a relaxed, almost chatty delivery with a sudden-flaring, white-hot zeal. His manner is easy and urbane, but his matter is often passionate, personal, and contemptuous of easygoing Christianity. Man is either for God, he says, or against...
...looked as if he might have stepped out of the court of Queen Elizabeth; pudgy Josiah Royce ("the Rubens of Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton, the unappeasable pursuer of beauty. After his death, students guessed that he, would enter Heaven shading his eyes against the glare and protesting: "Oh! Oh! Oh! So overdone! So garish! So Renaissance...
...national health insurance company. The plan was recommended by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions, headed by Dr. Paul Ramsey Hawley. The idea was to issue policies covering hospital and medical bills on a nationwide scale, which would allow big businesses to sign one contract covering all employees, no matter where they work. The plan would give more people better medical care, and thus probably lessen agitation for compulsory insurance. But A.M.A. said no: the whole thing looked like socialism, it called for too much centralization and too much interference with doctors by laymen...
Recently Ned's son Jerome, 41, who "imbibed merchandising in my guts since I was twelve," has been urging Ned to try the Ohrbach formula in a dozen other cities. A banking syndicate is ready to back such a chain if the Los Angeles store succeeds. But no matter how many stores are opened, Ohrbach's intends to make customers pay cash. Says Ned: "The more billing the less cooing...