Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...champion Connecticut, played a different brand of ball yesterday. After working fairly well in the first pieces, the team just seemed to go to pieces for the rest of the game, neglecting teamwork when at midfield and forgetting careful shooting when in the Dartmouth crease. "It wasn't a matter of being outclassed," Coach Bruce Munro said after the game. "We were just plain outscrapped...
...NROTC is obviously not at fault in bringing this loyalty probe to Harvard. It is taking orders. So, for that matter is the Navy itself. But the U. S. Government's present all-over standards for security, as mirrored by the Harvard check, are dangerous and inaccurate...
...directly responsible for many of the changes, city engineer Edgar W. Davis has shown considerable intelligence in ordering numerous changes. Although he has climbed out on the proverbial limb in terming the experiment a success, he definitely has not blinded himself to other improvements. Merely as a matter of comfort, the MTA was requested to raise the level of the trolley tracks on the Coop side of the kiosk, thereby removing the hollow that was turned into a sea of mud and water almost every rainstorm. Davis, furthermore, is well aware of the student's plight in crossing Cambridge Street...
...fact of the matter is that R.T. still hasn't had a fair test. Construction still is under progress, commuters, remain unfamiliar with the system, and pedestrians are all too often downright hostile and uncooperative. But barring a gang war between can companies, the Harvard Square battleground should soon develop into merely another busy, but otherwise normal, intersection. Although not as tasty as Tono Bungay, rotary traffic should effect more material results...
...Soviets never had any fundamental secret to overcome, Schwinger remarked. "It was just a matter of getting enough technology together. What the Russians had to do is evident--they had to get enough fissionable material together and then lick the detonating problem.' This is apparently what they have done, he said...