Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Henry W. Foote, whose remarks that writer endorses, it would be highly improper to ask Mr. Randall and Mr. Carlisle their views on the important question of the tariff when the selection of one or the other to a most important office in the government depends upon the answer. The custom that has hitherto prevailed in the selection of overseers, and the custom that would probably have prevailed for years to come, had not Mr. Garrison stepped in, if adopted in our national politics would have been merely to cast a blind vote for the more popular...
...Kent, stating that it would be impossible for us to play on those dates, unless we played here the 24th, and I asked if he would agree to play the first game in Cambridge, May 24th, and the second in New Haven, May 31st. To this no direct answer has as yet been received ; but it seems from various reports from Yale sources, that Yale, '87, being dissatisfied with Mr. Kent's course, has voted not to play with us at all unless we consent to play them the first game May 24th in New Haven. We confidently expect that...
...spoken "out of the pocket." So far as it means anything, it seems to mean that we were influenced in our article by some betting interest in the game. Comment is unnecessary. Having mentioned this courteous suggestion from the new board of editors of the News, we will now answer their editorial so far as it refers to the ball game...
...until the spring fairly opens that he is here in force. Then he seems to come all at once with a whoop and a yell. Whence he comes, and whither he goes, no man can tell. Several ingenious theories have been propounded but none of them adequately answer the question. It has been claimed that he is a species of bird that flies away South for the winter and comes back with his race when it becomes warmer. This theory in a most beautiful manner accounts for his semi-miraculous appearances and disappearances, but it leaves quite unanswered several physical...
...question, "Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" He argued that it was lawful, and thirty years later he stood first in advocating such measures. In 1765 Elbridge Gerry, who became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, answered the following question in the affirmative: "Can the new prohibitory duties, which make it useless for the people to engage in commerce, be evaded by them as faithful subjects?" C. Strong, afterwards governor of Massachusetts, gave an affirmative answer, in 1767, to the following question:"Does a promise that has been...