Word: moot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first lecture in English 35a, Professor Lake carefully explains that the course will be of no use for those who are preparing to pass departmental Bible exams. Just how far he is right is a moot point. At least, one is forced, or should be forced, to read the Old Testament, and if it is the first time, there is some help. Otherwise, very little...
...Color, a moot subject in Hollywood for the last 20 years, still engages the attention of cinema engineers though most major producers are skeptical about using it except on rare occasions. From du Pont and M. I. T. engineers is soon expected an announcement that may revolutionize color pictures. Whether or not Technicolor's "three-component"' method is sufficiently perfect to make as good pictures of real people as it does of cartoons, whether it will be sufficiently appealing to make up for its expense, are two of the questions which Hollywood will be glad to have answered...
...event that the Corporation in-forms the Overseers of its choice on Monday or Tuesday, the regulations of the University call for a week's delay before the Overseers' approval. It is a moot point whether the president-elect will be announced immediately upon his choice by the Corporation or whether the announcement will be held up until after the approval...
...that one of Authoress Jameson's favorite words is "sour." But so many successful authors deal in soft soap that it is scarcely surprising if less acclaimed but equally competent competitors take to acid. The three long short stories in Women Against Men are potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend, Victoria., who uses herself as material for love...
President Lowell's excellent report on the condition's in graduate schools again brings to the fore a moot point: is it the purpose of the scholar or scientist (for I make small distinction between them) to be eminent in his field; or (eminence being for him a side issue and of no significance) does he rather seek after beauty and truth for the sake only of beauty and truth? If the former, then surely "the glory of a university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." If the latter, will...