Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first monologue of the series appeared originally in magazine form. The story runs that his publishers cabled Author Lewis suggesting that they set it up in slim book form and sell it for a dollar. The cabled answer: "Hold off. I'll send you more of the same, and we'll sell...
...boredom with the matter in hand and indifference to the curiosity of his reader, Author Wylie tells his age-old story with gusto, relish, and a naïve zest in his discovery of the differences between two successive generations. Wise enough, perhaps, to know that there is no answer, he offers none...
WHEN America's present posperity, and with it all its creations disappear? The question has often been asked, and as often found a new answer. Usually it is the economist who writes, but in this case a son of American prosperity, a Wall street banker, provides an answer which, perhaps because of its very non-scholarly writing, will attract the business...
...none of these cases is the danger without its remedy. To each of the problems, Mr. Mazur has his answer, simple, based on common sense, without a flaw in the logic that any business man could detect: but perhaps because if its very clarity not entirely to be trusted by the scholars in economics...
...Gifford does not set out to show that a college education is an advantage to a business man. His arguments are directed to an end more cogent for the undergraduate, for he makes a definite answer to the question whether scholastic aptitude is an asset in non-professional work. He believes that it is, on the ground that it has been found to be so in some thousands of cases. His findings, however, it valid, undoubtedly put a premium on good work at college. To be sure the man who has the ability to do well but does...