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Word: moot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think so, and things like "Sing, Sing, Sing" resulted. But people soon tire of the constant pound of the style and grow sick of the dearth of ideas in the music. So Goodman is trying to shift his band to the other style. Whether he will succeed is a moot question...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...games were played, Referee Clark Hodder, coach of the Varsity team, ran off the other two matches. In the first of this set Dunster set back Kirkland, 5 to 2. Dunster standouts were: Agera, Farley, Chick, Young, and Merrill; while Kirkland's first line consisted of Dempsey, Grifflith, Moot, Law, Richards, and Connolly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER - HOUSE HOCKEY DRAWS 121 PUCKSTERS | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...Grand Master), James K. Polk (Royal Arch), James Buchanan (Past Master), Andrew Johnson (32nd Degree), James A. Garfield (14th Degree), William McKinley (Knight Templar), Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding (33rd Degree), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd Degree). (Whether Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were Masons is a moot question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan he was a Shubert office boy and manager of Manhattan's Bijou Theatre before he changed his name to Bilbo, went to Chicago and fell in with gangster Al Capone in 1926. How close he was to Scarface Al is a moot question. There is no record that he ever lay in bilboes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint-Gunner | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Island, breaking the line and isolating the Bridges proceedings for a whole day. A telegraph operator grabbed a knife and went berserk in the room next to the trial chamber, had to be overpowered. Otherwise the performance went along quietly enough, covering ground familiar to reporters of the long, moot Bridges story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: On Angel Island | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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