Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee proposals are the result of nearly seven years of study and experiments; they offer the College a program far broader and more liberal than any other comparable system now in operation. There should be no hesitation on his matter either in the Faculty or among students...
...Matter of Record. In St. Louis, the Governmental Research Institute announced the results of a survey in the city's magistrate courts: two stenographers didn't know shorthand, another couldn't type...
...varies a little from year to year, but the third set is always played in searsucker jackets and the epilogue in caps and gowns. Just what sort of comedy the play is--whether it is farce, or burlesque, or tragi-comedy--has never been settled. But that is a matter for pedants to discuss. Today, as the great bard has said, we have another op'nin' of another show, and if it isn't "The Taming of the Shrew," and if it isn't in Baltimore, of all places, what difference does that make, so long as the lectures...
...consulting exports of the day, Earl Torgesson, Red Barrett, et al, agreed that baseball playing was a matter of adaptaing one's individual reflexes to the various aspects of the game. People with good reflexes permitted to develop in their own peculiar way become good baseball players; those with bad coordination spend all their days trying to master a fungo...
...Wagner and Pound and "all the other artists who also rejected free society." Gentlemen, you are talking nonsense. No one cares about Wagner; he has been dead a few years; he has not been invited to symphony Hall; whether or not he was disgusting 100 years ago cannot possible matter to us. His music lives, has a beauty and entity of its own as it comes to us through the medium of contemporary performers...