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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be no more than the cost of the present price-support program (an estimated $860 million this fiscal year, an unpredictable part of which may be recouped in later years by the Government in sales of stored surpluses). But for those who liked their arithmetic plain, the answer seemed too familiar. It looked as if the rabbit might save the consumer some money on his bills, but it also seemed inevitable that he would have to pay it back to the Government on income-tax day-and a great deal more besides, if bureaucracy ran true to form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Farm Pharmacy | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Quoting is fellow package store owners, the liquor dealer expressed the belief that the ultimate answer to the whole problem must lie in the hands of college authorities, as "older students can always buy alcoholic beverages for their younger drinking companions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colleges Protest Sale of Liquor to Young Students | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...remaining meetings, Wednesday, April 20, and Thursday, April 21, department members will discuss the various academic fields and answer questions concerning concentration. Biology, Social Relations, Chemistry, and Anthropology are scheduled for the Wednesday meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentration Talks Begin for '52 | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

Although tutorial is the best answer to the College's needs, well-run sections and "advisory functioning ideally" can also help. However, the Committee charges that sections too often degenerate into "miniature lectures or policing sessions," and states that unless students and teachers take a lively interest in the advising system, "it must fail miserably in accomplishing anything beyond what a trained secretary could...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Report Appears Today On 'Harvard Education' | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

...chapter titled "General Education--A Complete Answer?," the report criticizes the Administration for concentrating too much on the content of GE and other courses. Instead the College must come to "reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and incentives to actual learning...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Report Appears Today On 'Harvard Education' | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

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