Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What has been the result of the almost unbelievable sacrifices of the great War?" asked General Pershing, keynoted his dedication speech with this reply, "The answer is that our liberty has been preserved, democracy survived as a fundamental structure of government, and civilization is unchanged...
...possible but perhaps unconscious reason why more fellows--to answer the CRIMSON editorial of October 13--do not study in the Widener reading room is that it is improperly lighted. At night room is that it is improperly lighted. At night the desk lamps cast uneven light over the tables and it is difficult for anyone who doesn't place his book directly under the lamp to see without straining his eyes...
Widener is wondering, too, and very much interested in finding the answer. Desultory though it may have been to undergraduate criticism in the past, Widener now has an ear to the ground, anxious to catch the murmer of a disgruntled patron. Several avenues which might provide a solution to the problem have been suggested. First is the old recommendation for personalization. Like Grand Central Station, Widener is big, moving, and impersonal, and it is difficult to add a "homey" note to a building constructed for dignity rather than coziness. A suggestion of much more practical import, however, is that...
Most tenuous, but also the most interesting in showing how the early Steinbeck twig of romanticism was bent, is the second episode: Jody, who feels deeply the mystery of the distant California Sierras, thinks he has the answer when he watches an old Mexican going off into the mountains...
...author chose the faintly ridiculous, wildly improbable newt as the subject of his extravaganza must remain a mystery. Why he ends the book so indeterminately is easier to answer: he found he had bitten off more in the way of Wellsian fantasy than he could chew. Through the rest of the book, however, he does give about as copious a working-out of the satiric possibilities of his theme as could possibly be wished for, and while in some parts of this the creaking of the Capek brain is depressingly almost audible, in others-particularly those dealing with the grave...