Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just how the parasitic insects were preserved in a fossil state so that they could be studied advantageously was not clear to the reporter until, in reply to his question, Professor Brues said that there were large numbers of insect fossils in Baltic amber...
...village does have certain scruples. For instance there is the question of foreign invasion. Charlotte used to countenance these educational amusement enterprises which yearly came to relieve Charlotte of her stock of money. The selectmen arose finally in righteous indignation. Charlotte now has a race track and keeps the money in the town. The races are not your rustic anti-Belmont flascos either. With a whip and a blanket for reward and the town on deck to stand by the local steeds, races are keen and the time--enjoyed...
This evening at 8.15 o'clock in Payne Hall the University debaters will meet the Yale team. This debate, which is one of the Harvard-Yale-Prinecton triangular series, marks the climax of the current season. The University will defend the negative of the question: "Resolved, That education is the curse of the present age", against the forensic art of the Eli affirmative team...
...subject originally assigned by the Eastern Debating League. "Resolved, That compulsory enrolment in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps should be abolished" was changed to the present one in accordance with the request of the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton debating councils for a question of lighter nature. The subject chosen is intended to furnish an opportunity for the play of wit as well as the use of logic and profound argument...
...overwhelming vote of the audience the negative of the question, Resolved: That the school of thought represented by H. L. Mencken is inimical to American Culture, was defended at a meeting of the Debating Union last night...