Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials of the M.C.C. refused to comment. But one member said: "If this is a joke, I consider it in very poor taste. It is nothing short of abominable and I refuse even to discuss...
...Majesty, Abdullah Ibn Hussein, British-crowned monarch of Trans-Jordan, his son, Emir Naif, and a suite of 16 ministers and notables, had traveled some 900 miles (via Turkish presidential yacht and train) to discuss the dream of an all-Moslem Orient. This would include Turkey, from which the Arabs broke away during World War I. One possible purpose: to serve as a road block to Soviet expansion in the Middle East...
...Hughes sat down last week to discuss a compromise with his onetime friend Jack Frye. Present at some meetings of the three-day peace conference was CABoss James M. Landis. He pointedly reminded Hughes and Frye that a major airline was something of a public utility which private individuals could not kick around with impunity. After a final six-hour session, Hughes agreed to lend T.W.A. $10,000,000 (through his Hughes Tool Co.) and back Frye's plan to authorize a new issue of 2,000,000 shares of T.W.A. common stock...
...Woodberry Poetry Room in Widener may be exceptions, but it is a safe guess that most Freshmen and Sophomores in the College today either don't know about it, or have a hazy idea that it is a place where long-haired graduate seminars get together to discuss technical niceties of meter and rhyme...
...than a hope, is for a West European federation-including France, the Low Countries, a de-Francoed Spain, Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs cordon). "This," wrote Koestler, "is not the occasion to discuss the merits and demerits of such a plan; I mention it merely to avoid closing on a note of despair. For so desperate has the situation in Europe become that pessimism, like defeatism in times of war, is no longer permissible...