Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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been carrying on in north China? The prospects for Chinese resistance depend to no small degree on the answer, but we have very few first hand accounts of what is going on in Hunan, the probable scene of the next fighting...
...five or six representative answers which were printed all said that the University was able to afford taxes and should pay them. The "Citizen" is seeking an answer from this side of the river which will express Harvard's point of view...
...contrasting blues, greens, and yellows, the picture would lack its forceful meaning. This war picture has, however, the necessary form in which Zerbe is so deficient. Grosz seems to round out his color scheme and to give real modeling to the figures. It is he who provides the answer to the question as to the value of such painters, for there are few if any artists producing today who have such life, feeling, and meaning...
...last week's Lancet Dr. Meulengracht revealed the answer to this medical mystery. The patient was a "hypochondriac," he said, "and obsessed by his evacuations." Every morning for 35 years he had taken one teaspoon of Carlsbad salts as a laxative. Carlsbad salts "are mainly composed of sodium sulfate and sodium bicarbonate, and presumably a certain amount of calcium of the food was transformed in the intestine into insoluble calcium sulfate which was then evacuated." The result was "a calcium deficiency of the skeletal system." When the patient was deprived of Carlsbad salts his disease was checked. Although still...
Literature. Clearest, best-reasoned chapter on the cultural impasse of the Left is John Chamberlain's essay. Why, he asks, has the promised "proletarian" renaissance of contemporary fiction fizzled out? His answer: Because writers, with few important exceptions, can no longer find a moral basis for their characterizations; they cannot make up their minds whether to be evolutionists or revolutionists; their values shift constantly with "radical morality, in a world of Moscow trials, undeclared wars, 'Trojan-horse' tactics, and political 'timing' that frequently works out into two-timing...