Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the London County Council released a cautiously phrased bulletin to school heads and teachers which advised: "When a school has decided what it can usefully and wisely do, it is ... desirable to talk the matter over with parents...
...number of shares traded, and dropped to 1⅞. At week's end, Farnsworth stockholders had still to approve the deal. But those who had known about it could have-and may well have-cleaned up by selling Farnsworth short. The SEC was "looking into the matter...
Improve the Service. For Budd, such up & coming railroading was a matter of habit. An Iowa farm boy trained as a civil engineer, he began railroading at 20 on the Chicago Great Western. After a spell of work on the Panama Canal, he became an assistant to Empire Builder Jim Hill on the Great Northern. In 1919, a few years after Hill's death, Budd, at 40, stepped into Hill...
Graham Greene deprecates these 19 stories as "byproducts of a novelist's career." This amounts to fair warning to readers of Brighton Rock and The Heart of the Matter not to expect anything of comparable quality...
...Lever, stacks everything in favor of the choice of sin by a middling good little man and notes his exhilaration after making it. A fifth, written last year, is called The Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written in 1936 (he gave it up, wisely, to write Brighton Rock), in which the author intended to use the West African locale later picked as the scene of The Heart of the Matter...