Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article referred to my highways passing through large cities in order to get votes. I am a good sport; I don't object to that reference at all-as I know an article must have a little spice in it-but the fact of the matter is, as you will see on page 4 of my Highway Bill attached, that it specifically states in my bill, "and shall not pass through any cities or towns unless there is no other place for the road...
...Friday afternoon I began to realize that this weekend was going to be no easy matter. I was flattered indeed that the Junior Prom Committee had decided to hold their party here because I offered them Elbow Room, which they could not find anyplace else. But I also had to be in training for the Yale-Harvard Swimming meet Saturday night, which Yale seems to be pretty nervous about. And still they rely on my foundations to be steady after my one party of the year! How would I feel having people splashing around in my stomach after no sleep...
...have referred the entire matter to the informal Faculty committee on the Year Book," Steadman stated, "until the results of the investigation are revealed, I have nothing further...
...Vagabond's not-glittering shoe-tips. Emblazoned all over its simonized flanks were painted signs proclaiming it a dual-control driver-training car. A. Mr. Yordan, from the Bureau for Street Traffic Reseach, stuck his head out from one of the driving sides--it didn't seem to matter which one--and invited the Vagabond to come for a ride to Newton High School where juvenile drivers were to be given the latest pointers on how to play wrinkle-fender. "Four boys," said Mr. Yordan, "and four girls make up my two classes." Four girls, huh? Without further...
...move on foot to make the forbidden word "syphilis" a popular subject for dinner-table conversation probably has its redeeming features, but the degree to which certain publications have gone out of their way to "educate" the public in this matter is out of all proportion to the cooperation asked for by civic leaders. Indeed, the hue and cry has been such that even the most casual patron of local newsstands may well be under the impression that the country is undergoing a major epidemic, and that he himself is in direct danger of contamination...