Word: moot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Garrod prepared to take her place next fall with Cambridge's 73 men professors, moot point was what she would wear to classes. Professors wear academic gowns, but by an unwritten rule no woman has so appeared in the University's halls. Last week the University authorities had not yet unraveled this question, but Miss Garrod gave them a hint by pointing out that a woman holding a titular Cambridge degree may wear a gown on "appropriate occasions...
Impartial historians are as rare as "impartial" politicians. The Beard style, with its heavy clattering of cliches, lightened by an occasional urbane understatement or neatly turned irony, gives a skilful impression of impartiality. The impartial Beards' smartest trick is ventriloquizing moot points through historical Charlie McCarthies: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster...
...Guarantee that employers will not be prosecuted if they follow the Administrator's rulings and interpretations, pending court decisions on moot points. Employers now take Elmer Andrews' advice at their risk, chancing heavy damages, fines up to $10,000, even six months in jail if the courts disagree with the Administrator on what the law means...
...that this egg matter has been disposed of. I wish information on another line which perhaps some of your readers can give: When I was a kid a long time since, "Who struck Billy Patterson?" was a moot question then much discussed. I think there was a Congressional investigation, but as I was out of the U. S. A. for a number of years I never heard how it was settled. Now I do not care to know why he was struck or where he was struck. BUT WHO STRUCK HIM. It's important...
...moot question among physicians is the physiological effect of smoking. Only definitely established fact is that cigarets do little harm to a strong, healthy heart. Last December, Dr. Harry Louis Segal of Rochester, N.Y., who teaches in the University of Rochester's medical school, announced the results of a series of careful experiments on cigarets and fatigue. Even minuscule amounts of nicotine, he said, whether smoked in cigarets or injected directly into the veins, cause fatigue in many persons...