Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while the Masters' suggestion is highly satisfactory as the answer to an immediate problem, it should not be adopted as a permanent solution without very careful thought. Certainly, for example, the College should abolish forced commuting before moving in graduates, and it should never bring back the forced commuter system just to maintain some quota of graduate students in the Houses...
...telephone is a Jekyll and Hyde invention, a curse and plague as often as it is a convenience. We list our present lack of a telephone as our greatest luxury. We no longer must drop whatever we are doing, day or night, and run to answer that raucous bell. I now have leisure to pursue a hobby, enjoy good music, read a book or converse with my wife. We are not dragged off against our will to meetings. We no longer must put up with the leechlike telephone salesmen and solicitors. Meanwhile, our health is better as we have eliminated...
...keyed the week to the U.S.'s determination to defend its rights of free access across Communist East Germany to West Berlin-"We could not abandon them; we never would abandon them." Asked about the possibility of "troop withdrawals or disengagement in Central Europe," he ducked a direct answer but stressed that any agreement with the U.S.S.R. in Europe must rest upon "some self-enforcing element . . . so that we can have confidence...
There is as yet no answer to this problem. The choice of field must be made, and it must be made with all possible speed. Wilcox himself admits that perhaps the only solution for students who can not decide on a major is to reject Sophomore Standing and think it over for a year...
...that both sides have resorted to force, the familiar pattern of extremists appearing as the representative element is again revealed. Clearly, however, neither white dominance nor Nyasaland's withdrawal from the Federation is the answer. Economically, Nyasaland could not survive alone, for it gets over half its budget from the Rhodesias and its labor surplus relies on the Rhodesian copper industry. Nor would merger with her black and bankrupt neighbor, Tanganyika, help...