Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill's address was preceded by short introductory remarks from Karl T. Compton, ex-president of M.I.T., and Bernard M. Baruch, elder statesman. The former read a letter from President Truman, who apologized for his absence with the assurance that it was "a matter of necessity, not of choice...
What is the matter? We are told than '46 Album will be ready by this June--just three years after it was due, just in time for the class reunion. We are told by the '47-'48 book's staff that their volume will be kingsized, bound in fine old leather, printed on sleek paper--but we haven't seen either of these tomes...
...speakers, including Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, the moderator, pointed out that no matter what particular field a prospective writer is interested in, a long pull with low wages must elapse before the top is reached. Eight to 12 years of newspaper work is the average of the Nieman Fellows...
Harlow Shapley and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., two lifelong liberals and strong advocates of intellectual freedom, managed to come to grips over the weekend in a fashion which was admirably calculated to throw both a confusing and misleading light on the matter in question--the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York...
...only the most complete purist would not have been pretty deeply affected by the whole thing. It is quite a privilege to be able to hear the Mass at all no matter what the interpretation. In fact, I think those who managed to get seats were among the luckiest people in the world yesterday. And if their standing ovation for all participants is any indication, they thought...