Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charged that Trans Continental shares were being sold by telephone by high-pressure operators, with the claim that the stock would double in 30 to 60 days and that the company had a good profit position and would soon declare a substantial dividend. The truth of the matter, said SEC, is that the company has operated at a loss since 1955. It cannot pay dividends until it pays off $3,000,000 in loans. Furthermore, said SEC, substantial trading in the stock was being conducted by an unnamed "foreign source," which had pushed the stock from...
Packaging is only half the battle. The right spot on the right shelf in the right aisle is a matter of life and death, since stores can control the sale of almost any item by the position they give it. Vertically, the best location is arm-high for a medium-sized woman, 5 ft. 4 in. tall. Horizontally, everyone wants the last 6 ft. of the display island. Libby is even going the competition one better by color-coding its baby foods (yellow for meat, green for vegetables, coral for fruit) so that a housewife can load...
Then she clicked. The public liked her in a small part. The producer decided she had something: "A quality of availability." The executive producer asked her for a date. She: "Shall I dress?" He: "What's it matter...
...transcendentalist, Thoreau saw spirit at the heart of matter. But he was never so genteel as to gag at reality. "Let a man reserve a good appetite for his peck of dirt," he wrote, "and expect his chief wealth in unwashed diamonds." At 23, Thoreau was already grappling with the central dilemma of his life, how to know himself and be himself under the raised eyebrow of conformist society: "It is always easy to infringe the law-but the Bedouins of the desert find it impossible to resist public opinion...
Premeditated Crime is a chilling exercise in pure atmosphere wedded to a sadly penetrating knowledge of the heart. Arriving at a gloomy country home to settle a property matter, an examining magistrate finds the owner dead. A heart attack, obviously. But was it? Why are mother, son and daughter so rudely anxious to have the judge leave? Why are they so secretive, so oddly lacking in true grief? Combining the technique of the detective story with Dostoevskian insights, Author Witold Gombrowicz unravels a skein of conflicting family emotions and so clears the way to a final tragedy that...