Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these reasons, immediately after the Armistice, I recommended in effect that this division be sent home first of all American troops, that they be sent home in all honor, but, above all, that they be sent quick. The answer came that Marshal Foch would not, pending peace, approve the transfer of any division back to the United States. In answer, I told the American headquarters to say to Marshal Foch that no man could be respon sible for the acts of these Negroes toward French women, and that he had better send this division home at once. This brought...
...cooled when they discovered that the suggested pact was a bilateral affair, capable of being used against them. But the fact that the might of the British Commonwealth would have to be confronted by an aggressor was a factor too important to be ignored. The French agreed; and an answer to the original German proposals was prepared for dispatch to Berlin...
What is the answer? What can be learned from this bewildering variety of testimony for the guidance of educational policy? One thing seems to stand out clearly. The period of college life is the period in which the plasticity of youth and the maturity of manhood overlap. All influences received during this period are likely to be profound and lasting. Since his college life is almost his only life during these years, and since a student attends college not only with his mind, but with his body and his soul as well, the college touches him at every point...
...days later. Nurmi eluded a group of giggling women who desired to osculate his drawn cheek, waved farewell to a swarming pier-load of yelling Finnish-Americans, had his last pictures taken by U. S. cameramen, departed for Finland. On the same day, in answer to those scandal mongers who have averred that he padded his expense account, a list of his expenditures was published. He, who had been offered a professional contract of $3,000 a week, $60,000 by advertisers who wanted his endorsement, lived for six months...
Other skeptics made answer: "It is likely that there will still be a limited number of books remaining for sale after June 30. It is possible that there will be such an overwhelming demand -so many outraged protests from citizens at seeing the Nation deprived of such a valuable source of reading matter, that Mr. Haldeman-Julius will be reluctantly persuaded to continue publishing them for a 'limited time...