Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams or similar colleges. If, and I profoundly hope this doesn't happen, it is decided in the face of this kind of pressure to enlarge Harvard by a thousand, and if either the money or the space for additional Houses and dormitories cannot be found, then one easy answer would be to expand the number of commuting students. But, I neither predict nor recommend this. All I was trying to do was to suggest various theoretical possibilities... W. J. Bender, Dean of Admissions...
...planets other than the earth sustain thinking creatures? Philosophers, theologians, scientists, fiction writers and ordinary people have speculated on the question for centuries. Now a widely honored scientist, having pondered long on the subject, makes his answer: yes. Says Russian-born Otto Struve, 60, head of the astronomy department of the University of California at Berkeley: The Milky Way galaxy, the great swarm of stars to which the sun belongs, almost certainly contains millions of planets inhabited by intelligent life...
...world's great artists had had better eyesight, would they have'painted differently? In a lecture at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, an ophthalmic surgeon last week asked the old question, made his answer-yes-and offered a new kind of evidence...
Lamphere signed an authorization for a request to a San Francisco hospital for data on his treatment there. He must have made a shrewd guess, for the answer did not arrive in time to help the harassed Iowa City doctors. Suspicious of his continual coughing or spitting of blood, the physicians tried every stratagem they could think of to catch him in deliberate self-injury. They never could. Four times Lamphere angrily signed himself out of the hospital, complaining of inadequate care, stormed to the main door-and there was persuaded to return because he was again spitting blood...
...Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to supervise all advertising claims, it, too, came in for its share of criticism. The Congressmen accused FTC of failing "to approach the problems of false and misleading advertising with vigor and diligence," called its actions "weak and tardy." In answer, the FTC said that it had scheduled a conference of cigarette manufacturers to develop uniform standards for testing cigarettes...