Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers. I doubt that there is any such thing as perfect speech. There are dialects, tones of voice, inflections and peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitants of various sections of the country. The so-called American language is a conglomeration of these various speeches and accepted usage is often a matter of locality...
...working in the University, which include supposedly nine-tenths of the total number employed. From the fact that officials are still negotiating with the local organizer, it can be rightly surmised that they desire a compromise in short order. What the terms of that compromise will be is a matter of speculation. As far as the union is concerned, it would probably accept wage scales only slightly higher than present rates providing that the University would grant a closed shop...
...outfit will finish. But on paper, at least, the prospects are bright. The squad has an abundance of material. With the right amount of breaks, it should do as well as last year's team. But with a schedule of at least fourteen games, any hockey team, no matter how good it might be, is fortunate to get through a season without more than one defeat. To expect an undefeated season, above all, would be foolhardy...
...greatest rival was Sir Joshua Reynolds, head of the Royal Academy, to which he also belonged. Their relations had always been strained. Tom was unreasonable in the matter of hanging his own pictures; he ignored his colleagues' invitations and never repaid their visits. Reynolds, on the other hand, treated him with great friendliness and respect, terming him the "first landscape painter in Europe...
...attempt to find out where the spirit begins and the flesh leaves off. Having abandoned a missionary's career when he saw this fallacy, Author Lin now regards any attempt to separate the two as "confusing, unintelligible and untrue." "Happiness for me," he says, "is largely a matter of digestion. ... I would prefer pork to poetry, and would waive a piece of philosophy for a piece of filet...