Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music royalties -ignoring the musician and recording firm, the artificers who put the music into salable form. If a disc jockey and a radio station collect revenue from the commercial use of the product, why not the men who made it? Petrillo was not the first to ask this question, but he was a man with a lever to pry out an answer...
...Washington last week, the Wage & Hour Division was mooting the question again. It was trying to determine whether journalists are "professionals," thus not entitled to overtime...
...wartime under secretary in two British ministries (Supply, Treasury). Hard-pressed Rugby had frankly picked him because it needed someone who knew how to handle money. All week the London Times's letter columns bristled and huffed. Canon Harry Kenneth Luce, head master of Durham School, posed the question that troubled everyone: "Is a head master to be primarily a schoolmaster or an administrator...
Judges in Israel. It was a question Rugby had never faced before, though it was founded in 1567, is now one of the top six public schools in England.* For a couple of hundred years, under head masters who didn't have to worry so much about the business side, Rugby was an "anarchy tempered by despotism." In 1797, the boys rebelled against one flogging head master, smashed his windows, blew down his door, burned his books, and only desisted at the approach of soldiers with fixed bayonets...
...intermission there were only two questions that people asked each other-was this the best since the sensational debut of Heifetz 30 years ago, or was this just the best, period? You can answer either question in the affirmative so far as this department is concerned...