Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of limitation of college armaments has long been a mooted one. Here at Harvard the Debating Union has occasionally attempted to give the matter the light of forensic discussion, but other affairs have obscured the question, and it has been, at least publicly, forgotten. Yet now, when all things relative to the military must submit to a candid appraisal, there is no reason why this particular phase should be overlooked...
...does not speak in a football sense, however. The question merely typifies his search for the "essence of Harvard," which, he discovers, is the one important thing lacking in the University...
...Cheng Ting Wang, Yale graduate who presented the Chinese demands a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 9), declared: "The American proposals offer a most promising basis for the settlement of the tariff question...
...jury. On the first day, 47 men were examined?farmers, mechanics, laborers, business men; out of this number 12 could not be found who did not state in definite terms that they were incontrovertibly prejudiced in favor of the defendant. Yet the case against Blazer was clear. The question raised by the disqualified jurymen involved an exceedingly subtle definition of law, an exceedingly complicated issue of ethics. "To commit murder you have to kill a human being, haven't you?" they asked...
...Also, it is known, most unpleasantly known, to Harry K. Thaw. That is why the other patrons of the club gasped when they saw the waiter place Mr. Payne at the table next Mr. Thaw's, back to back with the killer. In every mind beat a terrible question. Thaw, everyone knew, had shot Stanford White. If he discovered Editor Payne, his enemy, the man who had publicly vilified him, scraping elbows with him in a night club, what then...