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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stack of pamphlets is in three piles. The first pile contains one-sixth of them, the second pile several fifths of them, and the third pile contains six. What is the total number of pamphlets? Answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

Sophomore Dave Gately could be the answer to the team's broad jump problems, but he also lacks support. Henry Wente, Warren Plath, Mayo, or Rosenthal must improve...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 1/17/1957 | See Source »

...Moines's Roosevelt High School another bright boy had a different problem. He did his work conscientiously, but he usually kept mum in class because he "didn't want to be the one who always knew the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Perishable Resource | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...problem the State Department put to its architects* was the formidable one of housing its burgeoning staff in building that would not tower above the nearby Lincoln Memorial, would harmonize with the prevailing federal classic and actually incorporate State's present headquarters building. The answer is a utilitarian concrete block that primarily aims to function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Monumental Dullness | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...sordid, phoney, materialistic. Yet the reason why the play fails is that Roy Wilson is no better than the world that he rebels against. His "martyrdom" is meaningless beyond the theatrical pathos which is quite effectively created. If the ethics of success or of religion fail to provide an answer, why a neurotic and selfish youth who wants to push a motorcycle? Donald Berry plays the role in the James Dean fashion that the halting dialogue seems to call for and handles the part with considerable perception and feeling. His wife, sensitively portrayed by Elsa Grieder, keeps him from...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Martyrdom of Roy Wilson | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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