Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight came the end of Angelo's day. He hurried home, shouted for Amelia at the door. No answer. He pushed inside, was met by blackness and the overpowering smell...
...sufficiently unintelligent and sufficiently cowardly, merely sit still and deplore it all (the war). We may wring our hands and express our deep regret that such things as these could still happen in our modern world. Nevertheless, the question presses for answer--What are we going to do about...
...were obliged to find our answer in the proceedings of the United States Senate, as printed day by day in the Congressional Record, we should have to say that it would be such an answer as the super-verbose and dimly lighted might be expected to give. Is it possible that we Americans cannot do better than that? Nicholas Murray Butler in the Columbia Spectator...
Inexorably one returns to the "frozen" associate professorships as the only satisfactory answer. By extending these appointments to the key men among its departing assistant professors, the Government Department can prevent the appearance of any further gaps in its teaching and tutoring program. By juggling its assignments, the Department can have each member doing the work for which he is temperamentally and technically best fitted. A king could wish no more...
...only answer that seems to be at all evident is that no set rule of the ideal crew man can be made. It is true that while Bolles did try a particularly tall crew and a shorter, stockier crew in a race, the shorter crew won, but looking over the members of both crews it seems fairly obvious that the outcome of the race might have been predicted on the quality of oarsmen alone...