Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing less than mental Omnipotence is required of the University Information Desk in University Hall which embarks February 11 upon its second year of answering a great many questions which would cause a Britannica Encyclopedia to go into hysterics. The well-meaning, secluded, unassuming little Desk is called upon to answer questions dealing with everything from a morgue to an employment office. The Sphinx of Egypt would blush with shame at its riddle if it could hear some of the enigmas coming over the wires to University...
...Secretary of State Was informed by the Peruvian Government last week that its answer was in the negative, to his proposal that the Tacna-Arica question be solved by ceding to Bolivia this territory, so long claimed by both Peru and Chile (TIME, Dec. 13 et ante...
...compel proper testimony, punish recalcitrant witnesses-said the unanimous,* emphatic and comprehensive decision handed down by Associate Justice Van Devanter. This decision, besides authorizing the Senate to act on the case of Mally S. Daugherty, is of immediate concern to several other gentlemen: Harry F. Sinclair, who refused to answer in the oil investigations; Samuel Insull, who did not tell all he knew concerning the Frank L. Smith primary campaign fund; Thomas Cunningham, who defied Senator James A. Reed in the William S. Vare slush investigations...
...answer to the question, 'How much money can a university use profitably?' is the same as the question, 'How much whisky can a Scotchman drink?' Any given quantity."--President Lowell...
...giving or accepting its service. Much of its work is of the sort that cannot be cried from the house tops, and so it is that in this age of advertisement the question may some times be asked "What does the Phillips Brooks House Association do?" The answer is, "It is quietly and deliberately carrying out the policy of its founders in promoting Plety, Charity, and Hospitality...