Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheme is to replace the 5-5-3 naval ratio with something "fairer" to Japan. When correspondents asked point blank if Japan was asking naval parity with the strongest, Mr. Amau grinned, cackled, "That is a card we must keep up our sleeve. It is premature as yet to discuss the details of our scheme...
Entrance examinations for U. S. Foreign Service do not compare in difficulty with those for Britain's famed Civil Service (in which the candidate may be required to discuss anything from the causes of British hostility to Russia, 1815-1878, to the proposition, "The ballad is not literature"), but they are stiff enough to baffle most bright young Phi Beta Kappas. Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece...
...Appointments for conferences with Faculty Advisers. Each Freshman should go at once to his Faculty Adviser and make an appointment for a conference to discuss his choice of studies...
...Notre Dame's gridiron activities. . . . In this same account TIME overlooked one of Father O'Hara's most noteworthy achievements -the publication of his daily Religious Bulletin, mimeographed on a single page. . . . In this publication is shown Father O'Hara's ability to discuss a great variety of subjects, and what is more, to discuss them sanely in the face of hasty, radical opinions. The circulation of this little paper runs well into the thousands, with readers in nearly every State in the union, and many in other countries
...made her first appearance on the Manhattan stage. That she has not appeared in cinema before is partly due to the fact that in 1929 she was selected to play the young daughter in Street Scene. After 800 performances in Manhattan and London, she met Sam Goldwyn to discuss playing in the cinema version. They became so interested in how the picture should be made that they forgot to sign a contract. In the cinema Street Scene, Sylvia Sidney got the Moore part...