Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...
...such Oxford occasions memorable remarks often made. In 1864. at the beginning of the evolution controversy (see p. 40), the great Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli exclaimed: "The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, am on the side of the angels...
...Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening Post (.809).* Prognosticating a play's financial luck has but little to do with that synthesis of taste, dogma and analysis which is dramatic criticism. It is a question of audience psychology, of knowing what will make the playgoing mass guffaw, snivel, clap its hands. Thus Critic Littell's victory may have surprised friends who knew that the 1928-29 season had been his first as a daily critic (with the public duty to pronounce on a play...
...been looking for a sinecure or a popular office this is certainly not the one I should have chosen," said Privy Seal Thomas. "We fought the election largely on unemployment, and we all believe it to be the only real fundamental question involved. I realize what I am up against...
...final examination counts for practically nothing. In fact our practice is to count it as the equivalent of nine weekly papers. There is no more reason for saying that the final examination counts for practically nothing than for saying that nine weekly papers count for practically nothing. The real question is this: is the final examination fairly weighted as equivalent to nine weekly papers? If you think that either more or less weight should be assigned to the final examination than is assigned under our present practice, I should be glad to know what change you deem desirable, together with...