Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shifted his line of thought and began to consider the matter in terms of the individual events...
...justification of their stand on the matter, Lawrence O. Pratt '26, Publicity Director of the Program, said, "The curtailment is not applied only to athletics. Many departments of the University that make an annual or periodic solicitation have been asked to hold back this year in deference to the larger and more important need of the Program for Harvard College. We're trying to cut down efforts to sandbag Harvard alumni...
Strokes, no matter how caused, have varying effects, depending on how large an area of the brain is affected; they range from instant death through complete or partial paralysis to temporary impairments of speech or other functions. In the President's case, doctors first noticed a slurring of his speech and some difficulty forming words. They made the diagnosis almost instantly: there had evidently been an interruption of the blood supply to the brain's speech center, which is on the left in a righthanded man like Ike (it would be on the right side in a lefthanded...
...19th century, Sicily was considered (by northern Italians) nothing more than "a paradise of poor devils." But no more. Since World War II, long-neglected Sicily has suddenly started racing ahead far faster than the rest of Italy - or for that matter almost any other part of Europe...
...thick-skinned obliviousness to time and urgent demands for leadership. Stevenson was unsure, after a conference with the President, whether he had been invited to Paris or not. Press Secretary Hagerty had to confirm the fact. The President seemed unaware of any partisan pressure on Stevenson, or, for that matter, any real necessity for decision...