Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quality between planes is matched by differences in the quality of troops-their training, their arms, their physique, their leadership. In these respects, for example, 13 divisions of Greeks are certainly no match for 13 divisions of Germans. In peace time the quality of troops is purely a matter of judgment, but judgment is not guess work. Each nation's army has a character of its own as distinct as the character of each individual man and these characters stand out even in peace time...
...push milk teeth slightly out of line, but if it is stopped before permanent teeth appear, no faces are spoiled. Parents who try to break nursing babies of the habit only get them riled, which may have serious psychological effects. Thumb-sucking in school children is a different matter, said Dr. Langford, and is usually a danger sign: fatigue, illness or frustration...
...last week Thomas L. J. Corcoran said firmly that he had never conferred with Mayor LaGuardia on any matter of any kind. Rumor chasers began looking for a Tommy Corcoran...
...integrated companies (such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corporation, Gulf Oil), this is not vital. If their refining operations show a loss, it is merely a bookkeeping matter provided that their crude oil production is efficient, shows a greater profit, for they still have net earnings. To Consolidated Oil which has to buy approximately half the crude oil it refines-and to other refiners without their own crude oil supply-the difference between the prices of crude and of gasoline is serious...
Choosing to make entertainment out of such funereal subject matter required no small amount of guts on the part of the director, Michael Powell. His decision showed conviction in his own powers to lift the production above the gloominess of its surroundings and give it not only a large dose of social conscience, but the powerful entertainment value that comes of great tragedy. Those forces which could have killed the picture so easily,--the greyness and desolation of the set, the start, decadence of the characters,--were capitalized on by Powell to give the picture the incredible strength which...