Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually say he would do it. "There's nothing coy about me. I usually answer when my mind's made up,'' he said. But for three weeks a procession of delegations and petitions from Chicago had been pouring in on him, trying to persuade him, making pretty copy about him for the newspapers. "I am open-minded about it," he temporized. "After all, my first venture in political life as a youth was fighting the Chicago traction interests."* Some professors at the University of Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers...
...only brash, Johnny-jump-up William Saroyan hastens more incontinently to answer his critics than Playwright Clifford Odets. Last week, after the opening of his new play about love, Rocket to the Moon, Odets punctually tore into print...
Last week a paleontologist announced that he had found the answer to a question which has preoccupied paleontologists for years: could the sauropod walk out of water? It is fairly well established that the sauropods, big vegetarian dinosaurs weighing up to 40 tons, were dependent for their existence on bodies of water in which grew vast quantities of water plants. Some fossil men have also supposed that, on account of their great weight, the monsters had to stay in the water all the time for its buoying effect-that on dry land their legs would buckle. Others disagreed...
After this there was no holding Emile Aymoz, who not only had the 50 British doctors eating right out of his high-hat, but sent them away with this vital question for their influential ruling-class patients to answer...
Charley Lutz's participation in the Tech game did him no harm, and he will be able to answer the opening whistle from his forward spot but Chet Legg and Rick Rabenold are ready to step in if his ankle gives him any further trouble. Homer Peabody will probably get the starting nod from Coach Fesler over Bill Humes, while Dick Sullivan and Doug MacLeod will be the first line guard replacements...