Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact omitted from your article is needed to explain how the business affiliates of the N.F.U. organization have accumulated so much money so very fast. The answer is that the $33 million Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association, the $75 million Farmers Union Central Exchange and other cooperatives wearing the N.F.U. label pay little or no federal income tax. Other businesses of similar magnitude...
...senior who has spent many months on his thesis deserves the benefit of discussing it with the grader. And if the senior is unhappy about his grade, then the professor, who believes he has graded the senior fairly, should be more than glad to explain the mark and answer the student's questions as best...
...polished questions, at Kittredge's taking over the exam with his mild kindliness and amazing ability to elicit information from exhausted minds that objected to thinking further." Once a frightened candidate for Honors in English said in reply to one of his questions, "I'm afraid I can't answer; I have not read all of Wordsworth." Kitteredge reassuringly disclosed, "Neither have I. I couldn't be hired to." He always helped the candidate to relax, and, according to one professor, was extremely sympathetic in the voting...
Several years later, some efficiency experts asked him how long it took for him to prepare an average lecture for English 2. "I refuse to answer. It's one of my trade secrets," he said, but when he was pressed for a reply, he relented. "Just a lifetime--can't you see that...
...closing lines of Chaucer and His Poetry sound strangely like a confession; "...Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, idealist, burgher of London, Commissioner of Dykes and Ditches, who loved his fellow man both good and bad, and found no answer to the puzzle of life but in truth and courage and beauty and belief in God." Kittredge longed to have a chance to live in an age when this sort of life was possible, a desire hinted at in Witchcraft in Old and New England, "We are all specialists now-a-days, I suppose. The good old times of the polymath...