Word: matters
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...read. I heard him again in 1955, at the Jubilee of Kent School, Connecticut. He had had a stroke, and delivered his paper sitting down, hiding his powerless left hand under his right. His audience was deeply affected, for they were witnessing a triumph of mind (or soul) over matter. And the mind was as clear as ever...
However, in a letter sent to Congress on Monday, U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Donald J. Quigg defended his office's decision to grant the mouse patent and denounced Congressional interference in the matter...
...resist telling you a little joke. It's kind of cynical--very cynical in a matter of fact--about the Middle East...
...cannot spend five minutes in Harvard Square these days without someone coming up to me to ask, "Luke, when are you going to start playing again?" As if I'd stopped playing voluntarily. The truth of the matter is that the "Luke Show" has been effectively banned from Harvard Square...
Second, I can inform Michael Nolan that newcomers to middle-classes in American society--whites and Blacks, but especially whites--experience enormous anxieties connected with this enormous status transition. He might educate himself on the matter by reading the old and new literature on the subject. Or by opening his eyes, by reading the press or watching television, for events in places like Howard Beach, Carnarise, and South Boston. Yes, white-ethnic newcomers to the middle-classes are ideal candidates for neoracist behavior, whether in South Boston or Harvard Yard. Martin Kilson Professor of Government