Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the Government, or for that matter any government, possesses the power to control such forces once they are set loose is open to the gravest doubts. History certainly shows cases where governmental power, even to the extent of life and death, has failed to check runaway inflation. But whether or not the United States is standing on the brink of a precipice, any control, except for direct monetary efforts, "must mean a personal government of relatively unrestrained power". Backed by the dictation of closely knit labor armies and freed from restraint by a judiciary stripped of its independence...
...beneficial in England's history. Second, Becket's opposition was based on a narrow class privilege, wholly at odds with progress and the general welfare. Third, there was considerable support of precedent for both sides in the conflict. The superior legality of one or the other was a matter of such tenuous interpretation that it might easily have merited a five-to-four decision in a modern Supreme Court. Impetuously, the twelfth century politicians sought to solve the conflict of reform and the existence of a strategically-placed individual by assassinating...
...matter of House Plays, which have come to be traditional in each of the Houses, Winthrop has gone in for the less robust type of production. In fact, the plays have always been of a more or less delicate nature, which do not require the "Men Only" sign. This year's production, "East Lynne" will be given during the first week in April...
...could reveal them. According to Sir James Jeans, a star which has a brood of planets must be an exceedingly rare thing in the sky; the solar system may be unique among the billions of stars which constitute the Milky Way galaxy. To Sir James it is a simple matter of mathematical probability. He has done much to propagate the "tidal theory" of the solar system's origin which is probably more widely accepted among astronomers than any other. In this view, some 2,000,000,000 years ago, a wandering star happened to swing close...
...matter of fact in that quiet and secluded den of science, far from the madding maelstrom of university life, we passed the most hair-raising quarter hour we've yet known. For innocently accepting an invitation to witness a short operation on a cat, we had no sooner crossed the threshold of the formaldehyde-filled room when the coils of drama closed round us like an octopus and didn't let go till we left in a state of exhaustion, bloody and quite bowed...