Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...research work in American institutions of higher learning generally regarded as an avocation carried on at irregular intervals snatched from class and lecture work? This question is brought home in striking manner each year when the awards from the Milton Fund are made public...
...question arises whether the Register should be limited in scope to the college or should, as heretofore, cover the activities of the whole University. The graduate schools have never shown enough interest in the Register to subscribe. On the other hand, the Register is run more for the sake of the information it contains than for the number of subscribers it will attract...
Sense of humor, while it varies in different places, is not dependent upon Nationality, the producer disclosed in reply to a question about the difference between. American and English audiences. A Boston audience, he declared, is much more like a London audience than one in Detroit. "Our show this year," he want on, "has been very well-received everywhere we went, except in Detroit. There, before audiences composed chiefly of bibulous automobile makers, our show was a flop. They just couldn't see it. I like to watch the people who are watching my shows and it is interesting...
...wrong or mistaken. True enough this is no new idea--the Vagabond does not flatter himself so much as to suggest that--but it struck him rather forcibly last night when he noticed that Professor C. K. Webster was going to speak on Palmerston and the Eastern Question at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think what he really knew about Palmerston, the humble writer of this column found himself at the edge of a void, or rather an abyss in which he could see only one object. This was an image...
...relations of France and Germany were bad; but no worse in 1914 than they had often been during preceding decades. The tension between Austria and Russia on the other hand had become more and more acute, since the annexation of Bosnia in 1908, and the great question which interested the statesmen and people of both countries was as to who should be Ross in the Balkans. It was a struggle not for territory but for prestige, and in the East of Europe prestige was one of the main foundations of powers...