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Word: question (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the innumerable criticisms of the Junior Prom which have appeared in your mail columns of the past few weeks, the proposed referendum brings a loudly discussed question to a head. As a member of the class eligible to vote, I appreciate the opportunity of expressing my firm conviction that the Dance, as it is now planned, is not likely to succeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diminuendo | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...played with skill by Claude Rains and Earl Larimore. In his nightgown, his cracked and reedy voice gleeful with deception, Volpone remained to the end a riddle. After the Fox, in planned guise of death, has signed away his coffersful to his servant, Mosca throws into his teeth the question: "Who are you?", and there is no real answer. Volpone is no longer Volpone, for Volpone made a will and died. But he never was anyone; even to Johnson he never was more real than the idea of greed...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...Sixty-five hr.. 31 min.; by Johann Risticz & Wilheim Zimmerman, Germans, 1928. The Question Mark, in one sense, could not break this record. The Germans never re-fuelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Question Mark | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Eight years ago Chairman Hemphill died. Davison, the stimulator, was already dead. Arose the question of successor. President Sabin recommended and the directors recalled Mr. Potter (still a Guaranty director) from Guggenheim Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fourth $1,000,000,000 Bank | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, received a telegram: "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark (see p. 24)." Retelegraphed Mr. Davison: "Good. Let's trim Elijah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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