Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter. The grand jury and the House committee each truculently proclaimed its authority, competed for witnesses. Committeeman Richard Nixon said angrily that a whitewashing was in the making in the grand jury...
...Warsaw cafe a group of Poles were surreptitiously swapping yarns about the Communist bosses in their country when they noticed that an old friend, a Russian, was listening in gloom and silence. "What's the matter, Vyacheslav," they called to him. "Aren't there any good stories about Communists in Russia?" "Oh, yes," answered the Russian thoughtfully, "Yes, there are. There are many very funny stories." "Well," cried the Poles, "tell us one, Vyacheslav. We won't repeat it. You can't get into any trouble with us." The Russian thought for a long time, then...
...question Bender's assertion that a food investigation would be a slap in the face of Dining Hall authorities. Is the central purpose of the Dining Hall department to keep its hierarchy happy--or to serve the best possible food to undergraduates? And no one brought up the matter of the member of the official Visiting Committee on Food who suggested that Vice-President Reynolds hire a competent outside authority to scrutinize Dining Hall operations. This gentleman recognized the fact that the Visiting Committee lacked both the time and the technical know-how to attempt a thorough investigation. His proposal...
When it tentatively accepted Dean Bender's recommendation of a detailed food poll, the Council unwittingly crushed the food drive. That Charles Brynteson has jumped over a Council decision, to go ahead with the original short poll plan, will have little bearing on the situation. For no matter what any poll will ultimately prove, the University can now sit tight for two months and let the present annoyance over food die down to an occasional whimper. Given this respite, the University may conceivably survive the rumbling storm of student protest this year, unless something extraordinary pops up again...
There was a two-ring circus in the Blockhouse yesterday afternoon, but no matter which way you turned the Harvards were on top and the Wesleyans were on the bottom. The varsity wrestlers turned in a tidy 24-6 job while the freshmen triumphed...