Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom has a more terrific tempest been brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete...
...lack of friends and relatives with a background of collegiate experience makes it difficult to arrive at a decision that is a matter of natural sequence of boys brought up in closer touch with University traditions. As a result, the old plan of examination is out of the question and as a matter of fact seldom employed by this class of applicant as for the new plan of entrance, the lengthy reviews necessary for the successful passing of the comprehensives often prove too much for the prospective candidate, assisted by an only moderately experienced high school teacher, untutored...
...lack of material symbols, let the first man who throws his weight against an upright suffer the consequences of an outraged public opinion. A spineless vacillation and willingness to let circumstances rule is daily proving insufficient. Were a hypothetical straw vote to be taken on the merits of this question, certain poignant memories should combine with more sober considerations to range Harvard men with those opposing a Visigothic sack of the city as an appropriate mode of celebrating victory...
...responsible at once for the hugeness of the Democracy's popular vote and for the Democracy's internal division. He was the strongest Democrat. He had demonstrated, apparently, that no living Democrat could have won this year. Now he was leaving politics (see p. 8), and the question was: to what, if anything, could the Democracy look forward...
...ways of relating supply to demand. One is to cut down the supply. The other is to increase the demand. At the paternal Sugar Institute, last week, plans were on foot to assemble an army of researchers. To their official attention had been called a fact and a question. The fact : Sugar, a hydro carbon (C12H22O11) is the only organic chemical which is manufactured chemically pure on a tonnage basis. Hydrocarbons are easily broken down. Atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, may be taken from them, forming new and different hydrocarbons. Possible uses of sugar are in the manufacture of shoe...