Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells' novels have the unsatisfactory quality of being on the very outer periphery of the near-great. They are never whole-hearted, but strike an irritating intellectual pose. They usually discuss ragged problems, with only that touch of originality which makes for interest. They are surprisingly readable, and they are read. Perhaps the artist has always overtaxed himself, and has thus fallen short of his capabilities: perhaps the tremendous gush with which he has flooded the presses is but the indication of the artisan, Wells...
...students are in the House, and I see them much oftener than any other students. The convenience of proximity is important, and I think I do better work with these students that I know well. It is easier for them to borrow books from me, we can discuss literary matters at meal times, and I should not be surprised if it were generally true that students in Houses are better tutored than those outside--not that there are better tutors in Houses, but from the point of view of frequency, informality, and intimacy. The diffidence of the tutee who sees...
...would be the supreme law of the land. . . . When there is a substantial showing that exertion of State power has overridden private rights . . . the subject is necessarily one for judicial inquiry. ... To such a case the Federal judicial power extends." Chief Justice Hughes would not discuss the use of military force: "The question ... is simply with respect to the Governor's attempt to regulate by executive order the lawful use of complainants' property. . . ." The decision was the signal for a general slashing of crude prices throughout the Mid-Continent area last week. Texas Co., which...
...particular purpose of the coming gathering is to read a number of papers, and discuss them with reference to the revision of the 1892 edition of Dana's "System of Mineralogy," now being carried on in conjunction with Professor Ford at Yale University. On Thursday, December 29, an address on "The New Mineralogy" will be given by A. N. Winehell, professor of mineralogy at Wisconsin University and president of the Society in joint session with the Geological Society at the Harvard Union...
Newsmen: Did you discuss War Debts...