Word: matters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next level of attack is on the matter of economy. Some people, upon seeing a chair or a desk 70 years old, feel automatically urged, by a kind of reflex action, to buy a new one. Others like myself, equally automatically, would cherish it, looking forward to the day when it will...
...this suggests, and here I am at the third level, that education is all a matter of money like everything else, war, scientific advance, even religion to a large extent. Given a good place to sit in (and a luxury super library to read in) anybody with the financial stuff can become an educated citizen...
...University fails to do this, HYP will ask that Massachusetts Hall accept full responsibility for the loyalty oath, since refusal to do anything about the matter, Bluestone says, is a tacit approval of the oath as a phase of University policy...
...when Secretary of State Dean Acheson took off for Paris. For two days this week he would confer with Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman on various problems of Western policy, including dismantling of German industries. But Washington let it be known that the matter of Western European unity was uppermost in the Secretary's mind...
...dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much room, but the workers never got in each other's way. Said the capitaliste éclairé, "It is all a matter of going to the right place at the right speed at the right time...