Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placing, selling, and guiding the bulk of the senior class. But prospective graduate students in the arts with no foreign fellowship ambitions get little in the way of guidance gladhanding. It is difficult, in the context of the College's present placement system, to find someone who can answer a question like "to which schools do I apply if I want to study the history and culture of modern Germany...
Boston already collects more taxes per capita than any other city in the nation--and nearly all this money comes through a real estate levy that is both too high and unequally assessed. The answer to the problem, says Powers, is not new sources of income, but reforms within the city itself. "Any proposed new tax would only be an intolerable hardship upon the people," he says...
Asked the same old presidential question after lunch, he grinned engagingly and gave quite a different answer: "I am not a candidate for the presidency, but I appreciate your asking. I get to feel neglected...
...Paris at week's end, Farah Diba was in full flight from reporters and photographers, refused to answer any questions. A foresighted newsman who had boarded her Paris-bound plane at Geneva asked her, "Will you be the next Queen of Iran?" Replied Farah, with an air of someone who knows a secret, "Ah, do you think...
...fuss was embarrassing to Ontario's Education Minister William Dunlop. His own engineering specifications: about 5 ft. 6 in., more than 210 Ibs. Did he agree that a fat teacher is a bad teacher? With citizens clamoring for an answer, Dunlop took cover in the explanation that obesity is dangerous, busied himself with plans to reduce Jim Babinetz and get him back into teachers college. Said chubby Minister Dunlop: "It's purely a health matter...