Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus far it was an issue within a party, and Nominee Smith did not hasten to force it further. He postponed his answer to Mr. Daniels until next month...
Practically all such votes will, however, cancel each other, as required by the law of equal chances. The weighty, decisive body of votes will be moved by instinct. In the last analysis, such issues as the campaign will present will sum up in two questions which instinct alone can answer...
...latter thus describes an encounter with the Monk, who had been summoned to answer to the Cabinet for his gross immorality. "He ran his pale eyes over me," declared Stolypin, "mumbled mysterious and inarticulate words from the Scriptures, made strange movements with his hands, and I began to feel an indescribable loathing for this vermin sitting opposite me. Still I did realize that the man possessed great hypnotic power, which was beginning to produce a fairly strong moral impression on me. ... I was able to pull myself together...
Many aeronautical experts hold the dirigible the answer to the problem of how to make trans-Atlantic air services both profitable and safe. Two nations, Germany and England, have been rushing airship construction with this purpose in mind, but while a giant German Zeppelin will be ready for flight next month, English efforts to build the R-100 at Howden, Yorkshire, have met with serious delays. Government subsidies, already totaling $1,750,000, are at an end until test flights may prove successful. No funds are available for the wages of 300 skilled workmen, now sheathing the airship in silver...
John Davison Rockefeller 3rd, 22, has a summer job as assistant in the information bureau of the League of Nations at Geneva, Switzerland. Duties: to answer questions of U. S. tourists. Salary: about $40 a week. Last summer the job was held by William Curtis Bok, grandson of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Grandson Rockefeller will be a senior at Princeton University, in the autumn...