Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...
...newly formed Atlantic Squadron. A cardinal principle in Navy strategy has long been that "the Fleet" should largely remain together, ready to move as a unit and at maximum strength to any threatened point. Whether the Atlantic Squadron is to grow into a separate Fleet is a matter of dispute...
...Rare in the boom years of 1917-18 and 1928, they were more than twice as frequent in the 1932 depression as in the 1921 depression. In 1934, after Hitler's rise, they "occurred at the amazingly high rate of once in every column inch of advertising matter-five times as frequent as in 1932." Until 1934 "one of the great New York papers"† banned the specification, but today "Christian" appears once in every 6½ column-inches, "Anglo-Saxon" once every 29. Another paper runs "Christian" once every half column-inch, "Anglo-Saxon" once...
...matter of fact, if Yale doesn't watch out, somebody is going to take some sort of action. Indeed it is high time that Yale students take cognizance of the famed "mere presence" clause. Harvard authorities will not stand for any more nonsense, and a copy of the following will be sent to all Yale undergraduates in due time...
...Among informed people it is quite generally agreed that dental health is ultimately related to the health of the individual as a whole, and that the problem of dental disease is a public health matter," he stated...