Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to analyze why the Western crews with which he has been associated have been the best in the country during the past few years, Bolles does not think it's a matter of weight. "California has had some big crews," he agrees, "but year in and year out Cornell and Syracuse will be the heaviest. I think good crews just run in cycles. We have happened to have some good material out at Washington. Navy had its run, you remember, and so did Cornell. All you have to have is two lean Freshman years and then...
...matter of weight is not so important and Harvard's material this year gives promise of a Varsity crew that should be able to average between 175 and 180 pounds, and that's all Bolles wants. He feels that a crew coach needs a boat that will tip the scales in the high seventies, and more than that is by no means necessary. "The important thing is how you use your weight. I've seen some very great oarsmen who were under...
...last May, reached a nine-year high at between 12? and 13? per Ib. Basic and well-established reason for cocoa's hot market was the great increase in world consumption coupled with a shortage of production in West Africa. The precise extent of the shortage remained a matter of conjecture (TIME, Jan. 18). Traders to whom cocoa's market seemed too warm for comfort pondered the following circumstances: 1) tipsters and outside speculators were playing a larger part than usual in cocoa trading; 2) for weeks, every time the price of cocoa advanced a single point...
...settle the present situation could be considered in the slightest degree as an admission of any remissness. . . . [Our] organization is built up to manage properties and not to conduct litigation . . . moreover, no company is helped in the present state of public opinion by charges against its officers, no matter how unfounded...
...Down to her new office in Trenton bright & early went the only woman bank president in New Jersey and probably the prettiest bank president in the land. Her election to that job in Trenton Trust Co. was no gushing matter to green-eyed, graceful Mary Gindhart Roebling. Briskly she got the jump on local newshawks by asking them if they were depositors in Trenton Trust...