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Word: questioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee, now considering legislation to outlaw the Communist Party, will get some more advice on the question today when William Yandell Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Government, testifies on the bill before the group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elliott Will Testify on Outlawing U.S. Reds | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

...Maine, Amherst, Vermont, and Williams are the combos that the Halsey team will have to take. St. Lawrence has lost some of its talent to injuries and the sick list, but it looms as a big threat, even to the top four teams. Maine and Amherst are big glaring question marks. As for Vermont and Williams, most observers see them as competing candidates for the cellar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...assistant to Finnegan, said: "Now we certainly ought to get into the black." But staffers had their doubts. Round-the-clock papers have seldom worked well except in monopoly cities, where readers had no choice but to buy them morning & night. Newsmen once more asked an old question: did Marshall Field intend to stay in the newspaper business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sundown in Chicago | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Tired Light. Other critics question the "red shift" as a measure of velocity. The usual explanation of the reddening effect is that the luminous body's motion away from the observer "pulls out" the light waves, making them longer (redder) than normal. But since red light contains less energy per unit (photon) than violet light, Bubble's critics suggest that light may lose some of its energy in traversing space, thus turning redder. It may start out from a distant nebula as young, vigorous violet and arrive at the earth after millions of weary years as old, tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...first batch of year-end earnings reports came out last week, many a businessman began to worry about profits. It was not that they were too low. The question was: Were they-at least in some companies-going to turn out to be too high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Too Much? | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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