Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prelude to every great movement come the uneasy rumblings of an awakening public. And now with the approach of the Christmas season and the turn of the year, the question arises if during the past months there has not again been felt some such restless stirrings...
There apparently remains some doubt in the minds of certain Harvard students as to the merits of the Pilgrim Fathers. To settle this weighty question once and for all, and also to pass verdict on the passive role of the Plymouth Rock in the establishment of Boston society, a British Debating Team, composed of former members of English colleges, now at Harvard, and a Radcliffe College team are to clash tonight in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, at 8.15 o'clock in a bitter dispute. The question is: "Resolved, That it would have been better if the Plymouth Rock had landed...
...institution of such a plan of open tournaments will do much to settle the question of the supremacy of the courts also. While this is admittedly not a vital matter, still it will afford a great deal of satisfaction to tennis fans who have been arguing for a long time as to the relative merits of various professional and amateur players. Those who champion the cause of Karel Kozeluh, king of the professional world, will have an opportunity to see if their choice really is better than Henri Cochet, wizard of the amateur courts, or if, as many will loudly...
...Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...what President Hoover has said, statistics carefully cooked by the League of Nations are hurled at our heads enumerating peace establishments, which mean nothing. . . . The League is in danger of failure, through being run by flapdoodlers! It has done nothing but sit for ten years. It is the old question of petrol [gasoline] without a machine. There's nothing left of the League today but perfume...