Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will discuss the chances of success of this revolution and the part America should play in the future world-a world in which he sees no real victory for anyone involved in the present...
...President Benjamin Fairless of U. S. Steel, and President H. Edgar Lewis of Jones & Laughlin. Either side may reopen negotiations at any time. Murray let it be known that he thought it was time. He also announced that he would send an aide, lanky Clinton Golden, to Manhattan to discuss with President Raoul Desvernine a new contract with Crucible Steel. Labor and industry were approaching the show down stage...
...Washington Building (which also houses a nightclub, a liquor store, a nut shop, a division of the U. S. Treasury). At 11:15 each morning (10:15 on Saturdays), twelve to 15 of its 40 young members (only two are bald) gather on the floor to smoke, talk politics, discuss sporting events, occasionally trade in 40 stocks and nine bonds for their own or customers' accounts. Of the 49 listed securities, four account for 75% of the trading (Washington Gas Light common and preferred, Capital Transit, Mergenthaler Linotype). Some days there are no sales...
When he was a student at Harvard. Robert Benchley was once asked on an exam to discuss the international law of the North American Fisheries case. He wrote in his blue book: "I know nothing of the North American Fisheries and less about international law, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you the fishes' point of view." He did, and his blue book was so funny that the professor gave him a passing grade. --Christian Science Monitor
Here are my qualifications, such as they are, to discuss this much mooted question. I have been playing the violin (excepting only swinglanguage, a definite article precedes the name of an instrument) for nigh on ten years, and have been listening to jazz with steadily increasing interest for three...