Word: answering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more than four hours to read aloud. So soon as they could obtain the text in print, politicians perused it closely. It is just possible that an issue between Republicans and Democrats can be found before next November. But, issue or none, the Smith record must be the Democratic answer to the record of the Coolidge Administration. In his historical message last week, Governor Smith, using remarkably few phrases such as "all along I have stood for . . . etc." and "as far back as 1920 I appointed . . . etc.," outlined his record as follows...
...found a means of clipping the telephone's claws, of removing one of its most obvious defects. Reporters, with naive excitement heard a description of Inventor J.G. Larsson's device. Its purpose is to write down the telephone messages when the intended recipient does not answer the telephone. Constructed on the principle of a dictaphone, the device establishes a connection after the signal has sounded, then it sounds a signal to indicate that a device, not a person, is ready to receive any desired message. This done, the message is recorded and punched out upon paper. Then, when...
Last week, in Detroit, 3000 college students from Canada & the U. S. gathered to attend the Tenth Quadrennial Student Volunteer Convention. They wanted to find out "What is right, what is wrong and who is responsible for good or bad in foreign missions?" To answer these questions for the 3000 students came missionaries from dangerous distant lands, U. S. leaders of all Protestant Evangelical denominations. They met together in a Masonic Temple...
...students found questions revolving in their minds. They attended "colloquia" where they could ask their questions for any one to answer. Most of the questions exhibited a naīve idealism and an insistence on the particular rather than the general. Said one student: "Would it be possible for Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism to be worked together into a whole?" "It would not," said Dr. Francis C. M. Wei, President of Central China Christian University. Many asked: "Can't the missionaries bring Christ to the foreign fields without also bringing Christianity or Christian Civilization?" One asked a question...
Germany chuckled yesterday when it saw Secretary Kellogg's answer to the Briand treaty proposition which called for a signed resolution against all war between France and America. The editors of the Fatherland accused France in no uncertain terms of making a mere stage play to insure kind treatment from Congress when it comes to revise the plans for debt settlement. The return proposal from Washington that all the nations unite in signing this solemn compact for the outlawry of war took the wind out of French Sails. Their aim had been, according to their former enemies, to secure themselves...