Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...background, her Pulitzer Prize and her ability to cope with a college class, it appeared that Margaret Clapp had other qualities important in a college prexy serenity and aplomb. "Head and shoulders above any of the other candidates," reported Weeks. The rest of the trustees agreed. They popped the question. Yes, said Miss Clapp, she would take...
When Greenewalt finished, a question came from the floor: "If Du Pont is in favor of the Sherman act, then why has Du Pont been indicted for violating it?" Greenewalt turned to Bergson, saying:'Im not sure if that is a question for me or for Mr. Bergson." In answer, Trustbuster Bergson gave him only a frozen smile...
Callahan finally had an answer to his question, in proud local ads by stores in Billings, Helena and Lewiston. Example, in the Billings Gazette: "There is nothing the matter with Montana . . . Montanans merely buy their 'flat-heeled pretties' at the Hart-Albin...
...answer to this question about Henry Yorke will be found in the novels of Henry Green, which now number seven and embrace an astonishingly wide reach of British life and customs. There are as many distinctive social classes in Britain as there are regions in the U.S., and most British novelists, no matter how imaginative and observant, are as incapable of portraying life in any strata other than their own as, say, a Brooklyn-bred novelist would be of showing how a tree grows in Independence, Mo. But the novels of Henry Green, which are still little known in Britain...
...seems that politics and not economics will decide Murray's course, whether or not he is correct about the pension question. He may or may not be right; but he won't have a chance to reach his decision on those grounds. It is unfortunate for the entire labor movement that this man, who has played this one hard but fairly and wisely all the way, should be boxed in by his own people...