Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preserving the first at least in principle, keeping a fair share of the second. Effect of the Byrnes Committee report was to lend weight to arguments on the Senate side. Two days after its release, the two tax committees met for the seventh time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen or so non-legislative tax experts who normally attend all such committee conclaves, let out two hungry Senators for a hasty bite, let out the House conferees...
Every postbox in the House and the Yard dormitories is the property of the Federal Government and comes under its protection. By the Postal Laws and Regulations, "anyone who wilfully places anything other than mail matter therein for the purpose of avoiding mail charges is liable to a fine of $300 for each such offense...
...Soviet Academy of Science. For more than 15 years Dr. Oparin has studied the question in the light of present-day chemical knowledge. Between life and nonlife, in his opinion, there is no sharp boundary. He does not believe that life emerged suddenly and spontaneously from dead matter, but that it developed very gradually after a long preliminary evolution of organic but nonliving substances. In this slow unfolding an observer would have been unable to say just where life began, unless he had concocted an arbitrary and superficial definition. Dr. Oparin has constructed a fairly complete picture...
...goggling little Kaju Nakamura, U. S.-educated professional Japanese gladhander, onetime member of the Japanese Imperial Diet. His mission: to explain Japan and the Japanese to the U. S. public. Smiling with bland and magnificent unction, the honorable gentleman immediately proceeded to clarify Japan's attitude on a matter that still rankles mightily in U. S. memories...
...Matter-of-fact in his approach, making no attempt to conjure up literary terrors, Mountaineer Tilman pictures only two instances in which he was in genuine clanger, ascribes both to carelessness. Of a failure to reach a peak, he says, ''When a party fails to get to the top of a mountain, it is usual ... to have some picturesque excuse." But in his case it was the prosaic and common reason: "inability to go any further...