Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often the case that Harvard must search out such applicants through local alumni clubs and admissions-committee members' visits. Getting the Westerner or Southerner to Harvard is often a matter of recruitment, and any mathematics requirement might make this recruiting very difficult, if not impossible in certain areas...
...delicate matter. To picture the ancient and honorable custom of mixed bathing that still prevails in communal bathhouses in many parts of rural Japan. Photographer Jean Launois drove 150 miles south of Tokyo to the tiny village of Yokokawa. A special meeting of the village fathers approved the project, and a willing family volunteered as subjects, eager to enjoy "the honor of being photographed by a foreign photographer...
...when it was for a roommate or a guy at dinner, I'd write hundreds of songs," Lehrer says. "Now that it's my living, I've stopped doing it. Then, if it was a lousy song, nobody cared. But when I started singing for money, it was a matter of deleting songs rather than adding them. I only write songs I can use professionally now, the other ideas are generally too personal or too offensive to use on the stage. By offensive, I don't mean dirty--people have this idea I write dirty songs--but some of this...
...enlightening experience to say the very least--will be given any group that contacts the Dining Hall management in advance. Members of the Student Council roamed through the kitchen this Fall, and most of them expressed amazement at the problems which the Dining Hall Department faces as a matter of routine. Greater encouragement of visits forms one method by which the kitchen authorities can bulid up a reservoir of good will and student understanding...
Project Argus, after six months of self-censorship by the New York Times, has finally become a matter of public record. That is, faced with obvious evidence that a nationally respected newspaper had known what was going on since weeks before the tests were actually conducted, Assistant Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles has finally admitted that atomic weapons were exploded three hundred miles above the Southern Atlantic...