Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary human limitations. Permit me to call attention to a rather peculiar pronunciation of the name of Congressman O. J. Kvale as given in TIME, March 29, p. 10. Unless some transformation has taken place since coming to Washington, I think the gentleman would quite readily and naturally answer to the name, if pronounced Qua'-le. I have known him for so many years, boy and man, that I think I can vouch for the accuracy of this...
...picture financier which never fails to irritate me. I have tried to find a reason for this badge of the banker, but have failed. So this morning at 9 o'clock, any one who so desires may see me enter the portal of Harvard 1 to learn whether the answer to my question can be found in Professor Gray's lecture in Economics 2 on Money and Banking in the United States...
...indeed should not Carol pilot a supercharged space-ripper at Atlantic City? For some hours there seemed to be no answer to this question. Then Carol's secretary regretfully announced that "for unknown reasons" the American Automobile Association would not grant a racing driver's license to "M. Scarlat Mondstireanu" (Carol's incognito...
...school has seen opportunities of usefulness rising before it with freshly forceful insistence, as in the case of the much-needed reform of American administration of criminal justice. In the urgency of such calls, it has found new courage to make open appeal for the funds required to answer them, and we are glad that it has done so. Every dollar of that portion of the five millions of new endowment which is to go for research will help achieve for the American people values inestimably larger than their cost in money...
...capacity for boiled eggs of the average publicity seeker. Perhaps that is their ultimate. One could wish differently for Harvard needs an open forum much more than she needs an Association of Readers of Clinical Notes. To be or not to be--really, the Debating Union should determine the answer...