Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these days of confused and perplexing standards, social, moral, and artistic, the question is often asked and demands an answer--"What does he stand for?" Is the work of So and So on a fictitious and ephemeral basis, or has it a message of permanent vitality and worth? This question, however, can seldom be answered in the lifetime of the worker and still less frequently in that of the creative artist, it being an attribute of genius to be ahead of its own day and generation. Assuming that the chief works of Beethoven have stood the test of time, have...
...Princeton undergraduates are proposing certain changes, in the hope that a renovated system will avoid any that a renovated system will avoid any such disturbance as marked the career of the Princeton Student Council during the present year, when it came into strained relations with the trustees over the question of student automobiles...
...come" over the above provision. And its prophesy while slightly pessimistic is extremely same. The perfection of such a plan as would be instituted by this Constitution would be tested by every new problem that arose. No general dogma could include the variances of student life, since each question obviously must be faced with views as to its immediate causes and consequences. Set limitations could hardly be expected to deal equably with the several and almost innumerable facets of university government...
Last week President Coolidge added a new restriction to correspondents' reports of their semiweekly White House conferences. When, as often happens, questions asked at these conferences are not answered, the fact of their having been asked may no longer be mentioned. An unanswered question must be considered as unasked. Silence equals annihilation...
Alert magazine readers could have played a neat joke on friends and family last week. "Go over there and shut your eyes," they could have said, "and listen while I read you something. Listen carefully because you'll have to answer a question when I finish...