Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also undecided last week was the matter of Berlin. Joseph Stalin (with no elections to worry about at home) jumped into that deadlock with an accusation. He said that the Western powers had welshed on a deal between Argentina's Juan Bramuglia and Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had a fine chance to tell the world that Stalin was a liar-and prove it. Instead, Jessup, using the palest diplomatese, gibble-gabbled: "If Stalin's reference to an agreed solution which subsequently was repudiated refers to any resolution agreed to by the three Western...
Soils are made of mineral particles mixed with organic matter and crawling with living organisms, from bacteria to woodchucks. These living things, especially the plants, have more influence on the character of the soil than does the rock or other material out of which the soil was formed. Generally a soil on which a certain kind of vegetation has been growing for a long time develops characteristics which are specially favorable to that sort of plant...
Since this degree is the same no matter what department recommends a student for it, the wide divergence of requirements should be replaced by a set of definite rules. The Administration should clarify the purpose and requirements of this degree if it is to continue to serve a valuable purpose...
...heard any from Harvard professors. Both Mark Howe, of the Law School, who spoke for Truman at the Law School Forum, and Sam Beer, of the Government Department who backed Truman in a debate with Professor Cherington Thursday evening, gave exceptionally clear, intelligent talks. So did Cherington, as a matter of fact--but Beer and Howe managed to persuade me that what I had thought all along was 100 percent right. And when your candidate is Harry Truman, that takes persuading...
...petitions were presented to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at its meeting last night. This is the group in whose hands lies the ultimate decision for establishing wrestling as a major sport. No decision on the matter was reported last night...