Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know in advance with what vigor Alsace-Lorraine will reject those (candidates) who try to hide their answer behind, 'ifs' and 'buts...
...woman made no statement after being arrested and would answer no questions...
...years old, with several companions. When one of these companions threw a stone toward them the dogs loped toward their assailants. The assailants ran away except for William Kendy who fell down. The six dogs quickly pounced upon him, bit him twenty bloody times; then, when policemen came in answer to his screech-ings, loped away...
...nearly all the extracurricular activities, with the significant exception of the theatre, the opera, and the buying of books, has the response been similarly passive. And the conditions which are responsible for this seeming apathy can hardly be regretted, for they are the vindication of scholastic independence. If the answer to the call of the Phillips Brooks House has been largely that of echo, it is not an echo engendered in the vast purlieus of an empty reading room: if the Harvard undergraduate is refusing to teach the youth of the slums, all that can be deplored is his selfishness...
...answer to the second question produced an inquisitive uproar. Doubtless, the Anti-Saloon League needed the money, doubtless Mr. Kresge's conduct in giving the Anti-Saloon League half a million dollars was highly to be praised. Yet, would $500,000 spent in anti-saloon propaganda ("educational purposes") be sufficient to counteract the unfortunate effect produced upon those persons who would instantly suppose that if a man commits adultery with, as it were, his left hand while he commits philanthropy with his right, the man is a hypocrite, and the organization which accepts his bounty is a partner...