Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President himself has said that acceptance of presents by government officials should depend on good taste. A more pristine view might be adopted, however, to guard against graft and avoid any public misconceptions. No matter what the motive, all large gifts, whether beavers or just plain gold watches, tend to look like indirect payoffs for favors and thus discredit the government...
...whole "novel" should have been released slowly through quarterlies. In small doses, the stuff might still be good for a few kicks when you've run out of juice. Too much is too much, man, no matter what brand you're drinking. There's a difference between having IT and being sick...
...graduate office have failed to give hard-headed advice at the right time, have shied away from making their students work hard enough, and have generally thought a well-bred air of amateurishness more gentlemanly and becoming than down-to-earth efficiency. If we put our heads to the matter, certainly we ought to be able to say to a good student: "With a leeway of not more than one year, it will take you so and so long to take the Ph.D...
...case, if a man has not passed both foreign language examinations by the end of the second years residence he should be put on probation or dropped. This whole matter does not so much call for deadlines and a calendar during the first two years as for increased emphasis on ability in the native and foreign languages as an admission requirement...
With a family of four, the man making $5,500 a year (well above the average) just does not consider spending $2,000 to send his son to a private school nor for that matter having his son apply for a scholarship...