Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover made public no answer to a wistful "open letter" on his religion, published by Editor Charles Clayton Morrison in the Christian Century. Said the letter, in part: "In choosing you, the people of the United States rejected the candidacy of a Catholic. . . . Some day ... the mind of Christ will become the mind of the State...
...hundred years ago an Oxford student wrote to a friend at Cambridge suggesting a boat race between the two universities. Came the answer: "Your impudence is unparalleled. The sufficiently candid manner in which you talk of 'lasting us out' (!!!) amuses me so much that I am ready to die of laughing. . . ." So the first Oxford-Cambridge race was arranged...
...more sound statements made by Harvard Club presidents in answer to the query of the Boston Transcript as to whether graduates favor the House Plan or not emphasizes the point that "possibly the older alumni are more in sympathy with the plan than recent graduates." The significance of this remark cannot be overlooked in a consideration of the graduate attitude toward the forthcoming experiment...
...Attorney-General. He did not choose. Detached of mien, not outwardly the politician, he appeared to feel that his post was at the purse-strings of his commonwealth and there he stayed, vigorously, vigilantly economical. That was why Harvard was so eager to have him as treasurer. The answer to why he would leave the Legislature for the university is summed up more simply: he is a Harvard...
...farm. Quietly they planned a marriage which Sophie contemplated as a cure to her restlessness. But the black-eyed prodigal, son of the village doctor, thundered past her white bride's house on swift racing horses and lured her. And Sophie, hesitating, wondering, hoping he might have the answer Lynn had failed to give, staggered out to him in the stormy night, escaped with him to the great outside. Yet even in the escaping she knew that some day she would come back to the white safety of Lynn and his house...