Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furthermore my religious convictions (and even my common sense) are affected by your quotation from Mr. Sunday, the evangelist, to the effect that God answers every prayer, but may answer "Yes," "No," or "Wait." This is an unworthy quibble upon the meaning of "answer," much like those from which our President suffered when he carelessly used the word "choose...
Carl E. Lesher, militant vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., took the stand to answer questions fired by a mine union attorney. This colloquy dwelt chiefly on strikebreaking conditions at the mines, lurid with references to Pinkerton detectives, lewd Negroes' criminal assaults on mine women. Mr. Lesher passed on to his chief, President John D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., responsibility for the company's newspaper advertisements of last fortnight, which asserted that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced." Mr. Lesher said: "Perhaps we are unfortunate in that our material is prosaic and that...
...Another" peril was finally filed safely away in the waste basket along with the Cross Word Puzzle books it was not evident from whence would come the heir apparent to the honored place on the library table, once held by the sterioptican and family album. The answer came partially with MARRIAGE MADE EASY by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins (The Century Co., New York, 1928, $1.25). When bridge and conversation fail it is one of those strange playthings which baffle the intelligence and flatter the vanity...
...answer to Smith, in the Democratic party, is a coalition which has not yet found its leader
...grateful to the CRIMSON not only for its timely and well-phrased answer to our question, but also for its sympathetic feeling that thirty-our years of pleasant gridiron relations are not to be tossed aside by a simple gesture...