Word: questioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Obviously the real question was the right of an employer to kick out anyone who is a Communist, acts like one, or refuses to say whether he is or isn't one. But when Cole's suit came before a federal jury in Los Angeles last month, the trial turned into nothing more than a legal test of MGM's morals clause. Judge Leon R. Yankwich, charged MGM, had made a cocktail-party observation that all of the accused should be rehired. Judge Yankwich denied it, refused to disqualify himself. In the trial he made it clear...
...English-language daily, the Madras Mail, which quoted an exasperated woman's comment on Chettiar: "Why does not someone find him a wife?" The Mail observed: "The Minister's puritanism . . . derives from the absence of sweet softening feminine influences in his life. Now that the question has been broached, someone among the many matchmakers in South India will perhaps succeed in providing Bachelor Avinashilingam with a wife. We sincerely hope...
...Marsh, most modern art is "phony sub-primitivism. Critics may not know what's wrong with Picasso, but any layman can tell you. The question is, what does it mean?" Questioned as to the meaning of his own work, Marsh says with a faintly puzzled air that it means what it describes-New York. "This is a new city, wide-open to an artist. It offers itself...
...memory impulses go round & round and are called upon when needed. Some calculators use "scanning" as in television. So does the brain. In place of the beam of electrons which scans a television tube, many physiologists believe, the brain has "alpha waves": electrical surges, ten per second, which question the circulating memories...
...Flagstad, a robust 53 with a dairymaid's complexion, her return to Norway was simply a question of going home to her family, which was in danger. "I never thought of it any other way," she says...