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...most recent scientific ventures to the surface, according to Homer, indicate that in fact a war did take place. "This is still a moot question," he noted, since the Underground Migration supposedly occurred at a stage when all crust life was extraneous...
Whether or not this aid goes for construction or for teachers' salaries is a moot question but still the cause of much frustration and delay in school-aid legislation. Federal aid should not be feared as a source of governmental control--although income from any source, if not handled well by the recipient, is a potential means of control. But any bill should provide that the local school boards, in all instances, spend the money at their discretion. Federal aid may even be an effective antidote to harmful pressures and controls on the level of local politics...
...jury concluded that the issue was still moot at the time, so it answered no. Result: Green's widow and estate were not entitled to damages...
...Deadly Game. Three retired European men-of-law nightly meet for dinner and a sort of moot-court parlor game. An American salesman happens in, is tried for his morally slipshod life. Adapted by James Yaffe from a Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel...
Turning to Group 20, you say it "in the opinion of most is the best young theater group in America." Whether it is or not superior to, say, the five-year-old American Shakespeare Festival is a moot question; but we all recognize it to be a splendid company...