Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though not necessarily. It does not vitally concern the American college. Who is best fitted to receive a college education? What is a college education? These are vital questions and ones which, in whatever way would be helpful, the college undergraduate, the faculty member, the administrator, should attempt to answer, should at least study. All the other may interest casual connoisseurs of the pornographic, those who must, though it be vicarious, have floridity in their lives. It cannot interest anyone who is sincerely interested in American education...
...Governor of North Carolina asked the Governor of South Carolina who was the ablest U. S. statesman of the 20th Century, the answer might be Woodrow Wilson. If Manhattan Schoolteacher Annie O'Rourke put the same question to little Isadore Israbinowsky, he might answer, according to the degree of his precocity, Calvin Coolidge or Alfred Emanuel Smith or Will Rogers. Certainly neither the Governor nor little Isadore would be likely to name Elihu Root. They had undoubtedly seen his name somewhere. Mr. Root must have done something or the mighty President Roosevelt would not have said...
Cornered, the General took refuge in silence, refused to answer the princess for some weeks. He reflected that the lanky but athletic young man at whose presence he was asked to wink is, after all, the grandson and heir apparent of the erstwhile Kaiser. Princess Cecilia's son,* though he rule never as Wilhelm IV, may yet inherit the golden potency of a multimillionaire and live to reward well his friends...
...reply, it is true, has not the biting brevity of the Persian's indictment;--still the answer combines rather prettily the essentially incompatible triad of poetry, philosophy, and theology...
...heart of the crowd. He is a great bishop too, in the sense that he is a great Christian. Slumming to him has been no ideal diversion; it has been his vocation--his life. He has gone out into Victoria part to meet the Atheists face to face, to answer their pet poses with ready wit, and win their hearts by his genial comradeship. He has the same access to the rich as to the poor. He does not divorce preaching and practise...