Word: mooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace Cocktail." Before the 21-nation peace conference, originally set to start May 1 in Paris, can actually meet, the Big Four must agree to a great deal more. On Italy, their first treaty, they face such moot points as Trieste, Tripolitania and the Dodecanese. This week they put the "whole German problem" on their agenda -and no final European settlement was conceivable until Germany's neighbors knew what would happen to her. Molotov wanted to put off consideration of the draft U.S. treaty for Austria, where Jimmy Byrnes wants to get Allied troops (about 75% of them Russian...
Whether, afterwards, those who got in had a clearer idea of Yes than those who did not, remained a moot point. Between the acts the spectators, if bewitched, were also pretty bothered and bewildered. Said one first-nighter solemnly: "It's something you have to digest." Said another: "I don't try to understand it; I'm an old Saroyan man myself." But on at least one point a dowager was quite firm: "The love interest is very dull, indeed very dull, certainly very dull indeed...
...Ames Competition, Harvard Law School's traditional series of moot court trials, has been restored to the school's program as a postwar measure, officials announced yesterday. Currently engaged in the mock court work are the first and second year classes...
...psychiatry played a useful role in the U.S. Army? This moot question got an airing last week in the American Mercury. Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman, president of the American Psychiatric Association and professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical School, answered charges by Psychologist Henry Charles Link...
...Varsity: Stroke, J. P. Chandler '47; 7, D. G. Smyth V-12; 6, D. McCollester '47; 5, R. B. Perkins NROTC; 4, E. Gordy '46; 3, R. W. Locke '47; 2, E. L. Parker V-12; bow, N. R. Ayer '47; Cox, 5, W. Amory NROTC 4, S. D. Moot V-12; 3, H. S. Morgan NROTC; 2. J. M. Conant '47; bow, R. T. Edmunds V-12 cox, R. J. Ward...