Word: conundrum
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Ever since Herr Stresemann undertook the burdens of the German Chancellor ship there has been a certain return of confidence in other countries that the Ruhr conundrum would be solved. For the Chancellor has taken a strong tone toward the dominant industrial kings of Germany and an attitude of discretion rather than blustering valor toward the Allies. The culmination of this came yesterday with his announcement that Germany must and would renounce without conditions its policy of passive resistance to the French occupation...
...field azure, two hands orange and the hours ten to one! What is the answer to the conundrum recently set forth by white trousered painters under the eaves of Massachusetts Hall? We have stood across the street during the last two weeks in open mouthed astonishment at the power of the artist's brush. First came the shock of realizing that between the two little attic windows of Massachusetts there was a large billboard-like space. A few days later the face of a clock in gold began to appear. Yet a few days, and the whole business was submerged...
...current number of the Advocate irresistibly suggests a conundrum asking the reason for its likeness to the Collection of Western Art in the Boston Museum. The answer is obvious; each contains one work of marked excellence relieved against productions of more or less ordinary merit. The extraordinary object in the Boston Museum is the Greek throne; the thing of distinction in the Advocate is Mr. Alken's poem...
...paper we were treated editorially with the startling announcements that "the college was a unit against it," and that chapel going was responsible for much of the infidelity for which Harvard has become notorious. How the writer arrived at the latter conclusion from the arguments he used is a conundrum. He says the Harvard authorities have decided that it is only necessary to worship God four times a week, while formerly seven times was the required number, and then wants to know if there is an evolution towards no prayers, and if two prayers a week will not in years...
...gymnasium, and if attended by a student it is extremely improbable that he will escape from the building without first inspecting the Trophy Room, or as one is informed by the inscription on the door, the Meeting Room. Trophy it should be called; meeting room is a conundrum that has puzzled the undergraduate brain since the erection of the gymnasium, and will probably continue to do so. There is a tradition that the candidates for the Mott Haven team were once notified to assemble there, and with this single exception, there is no record of any kind of a meeting...