Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diefenbaker told earnestly of his hopes that Canada can strengthen its economic bonds with Britain, but refused to say he wanted to weaken his country's economic ties with the U.S. "Will you reduce American investment and domination in Canada?" one reporter asked. Diefenbaker's crisp answer: "I don't understand that question at all. We welcome any investment at all, from wherever it comes...
...population, the proportion of Catholics in American scholarship is nowhere near the overall figure." Why is it that, aside from theology, American Catholics have made such a comparatively small contribution to U.S. scholarship? In the current University of Notre Dame quarterly, The Review of Politics, Jesuit Weigel gives his answer: "The general Catholic community in America does not know what scholarship...
...general defense-mentality of the teachers for all problems, there is a marked preference for solutions given in the past . . . Older solutions have proved to be perfectly consonant with theological thinking. A new solution has no such guarantee . . . There is a strong urge to make questions timeless with timeless answers. New questions are preferably reduced to old ones and hence they need not be answered anew, because the old answer is already there. This deepfreeze technique gives the students the impression that there really are no new questions . . . Instead of making the disciplines an intellectual encounter with the real...
...office-apartment equipped with a pushbutton intercom system and a radio. The booted, black-uniformed officer listened for a' while to a local radio singer, questioned a corduroy-jacketed "freedom fighter," and chased a redhead in green strapless evening gown about his desk. 'What was going on? Answer: A modern-dress production of Puccini's Tosca...
Some engineers see a possible answer in stereo disks. Several companies have poured money into stereo-disk research; some have developed operating models, but none has announced plans to market one. English Hi-Fi Manufacturer Arnold Sugden now has a single-groove stereo disk that he estimates he can put on the market for about the same cost as an ordinary LP. His disk produces stereo sound with the use of only one needle that vibrates both horizontally and vertically. The major problem for the home user would be to get a steady enough turntable setup to play the record...