Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thank you for this fair opportunity to answer the letter of the Reverend Hugh Lavery (in your Apr. 13 issue, Page 31), whose attitude I shall not describe as unreverend nor ungentlemanly...
...great isolated men, and a little of their immediate environment, but he would get no idea of the continuity of history. Each great man is a product of his environment, and if he represents the synthesis of a movement, is as unrevealing if studied by himself as the answer with-out the mathematical problem. It takes a long series of incidents to make the time ripe for a great man, and since he must be studied in the light of the long movement which brought him forth, the study of great men becomes after all the old chronological method...
...likely to end in the return to power of ex-President Alexandre Millerand and ex-Premier Raymond Poincaré. What then? Is France once more to witness the ousting of a President as it did last June (TIME, June 23) when President Millerand was forced to resign? The answer was unborn...
...back platform of a crowded street car, in answer to the conductor's question from inside the car, All right, back there? have you answered, All right...
Considerable difficulty was encountered by the students in making their classifications. Chief among these was the definition of terms. What is a "moderate drinker"? One answer hazarded the opinion, "A moderate drinker is one who never refuses a drink, but never buys one." "A heavy drinker," says the same answer, "demands access to a supply at all times, and keeps himself loaded as often as possible". The writer estimates this class to be from 2 to 5 per cent...