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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Careful students of the game were quick to point out that it is essential for the phone to be in the booth, for it is absolutely necessary that one of the crowd be able to answer the phone if it should ring. There are no extra credits awarded for placing a call midst the squash, and if the boys can get a few coeds to join in, there should be no necessity to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Number, Please? | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Attorney General William P. Rogers to look for solutions. The FCC, in full accord with the presidential action, suggested that any real remedy will have to come from Congress, which has the power to amend or strike out Section 315. But until the Attorney General or Congress finds an answer, Chicago still has Lar Daly on its wave length, and radio-TV newsmen elsewhere are wary. Wiped out in the primary as usual, Daly bought an ad in the Chicago Tribune to announce himself as a write-in candidate for mayor: "Eligible to all-free and equal and purchasable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free, Equal & Ridiculous | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...thought him long dead were surprised in 1946, when the U.S. National Institute of Arts and Letters gave Hodgson a $1,000 prize, and again in 1954, when Britain's Queen Elizabeth awarded him the Gold Medal for Poetry. Why Hodgson? In London last month came the best answer: a 96-page book entitled The Skylark and Other Poems. It was the second major book published by forgotten Poet Hodgson, 87, in a long life of deeper privacy than most poets ever dream of. Strangest part of his story: for 19 years Poet Hodgson has lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meet Mr. Hodgson | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Many political arguments are conducted at such a trivial level, merely about which law should be passed and which shouldn't," Shapiro observed. "It would be better to discuss topics such as 'Existentialism and Marxism as an Answer to Man's Alienation in the Modern World'." But, he added sadly, "since most people around here are of capitalistic backgrounds, we can never expect a very large following...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Leadership Elite' Speaks For Political Clubs | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

...obvious answer would be to erect barriers around the canals, but barriers low enough to avoid spoiling the view would be too low to keep cars out. Last week the Royal Dutch Association for Assistance to Drowning Persons had a new idea: it began giving free lessons in how to escape from a sunken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Wait for the Bubble | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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