Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prolific of the 'literary hacks' of that time. . . . The most interesting thing about Wells was his refusal to accept the social inferiority to which he seemed to have been born. ... He was a liberal democrat in the sense that he claimed an unlimited right to think, criticize, discuss and suggest, and he was a socialist in his antagonism to personal, racial or national monopolization. . . . Wells was a copious and repetitive essayist upon public affairs and a still more copious writer of fiction. . . . The question whether he was to be considered a 'humorist' was discussed but never...
Said Lord Phillimore, father of one MRA entertainer: "I would rather discuss my other sons. Two are in the army in Libya. Another has been killed in action...
...more of them come directly from the Army, where they have been on active duty for some time. Complete training, including chemical warfare, is being given the officers. Today Peter T. Garden, assistant director of the Red Cross Military and Naval Welfare Service for the New England area, will discuss "Services to the Armed Forces" as a part of the varied curriculum...
President Conant will discuss the adaptations which face Harvard students entering service from civilian life. Examining the changes necessary for members of a free society in moving from civilian capacity to the status of soldier, he will stress particularly the problems which the soldier must keep in mind for attention and settlement after the war. The system of ethics in use in free and totalitarian societities will also be contrasted...
...event, which has been held yearly since the outbreak of the war, brings together many prominent Dutch-Americans to discuss the development of Dutch culture in this country...