Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere between the balm of a "courageous attempt" and the sting of a painful and wearisome failure lies the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production for 1947. That it is brave to attempt the resurrection of a mouldering and awkward work by Henrik Ibsen can hardly be denied; the question is whether sufficient resources lie behind the bravado to justify the effort...
...heavy shell-rimmed glasses, sauntered jauntily up to the witness stand. As the applause quickened, he turned, bowing and smiling to his expectant audience, maneuvering his profile skillfully in the fusillade of exploding flashbulbs. With forefinger dramatically outstretched, he raised his hand for the oath. To the first, identifying question he replied: "Motion picture actor-I hope...
...luxurious, pressurized, 300-mile-an-hour craft which went into commercial service last spring. The toll was U.S. aviation's second highest (the highest: 53, killed last May in a DC-4 crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects in the passengers' luggage could have...
...weekly column in the Times, Managing Editor Edwin L. James answered Vishinsky's question, improving the occasion by reading him a short lesson on the difference between the Russian and the U.S. press. Wrote James: "There was no one who would order the Times not to print [the first Vishinsky attack] and since it was a formal speech by the representative of a great power, this newspaper printed it. . . . [Vishinsky] has repeated it over and over. There was no one to order his speech printed when there was no news in it and so it was not printed again...
...teachers' turn to be tested. In Denver, the Rocky Mountain News asked about 100 Colorado public elementary and high-school teachers such questions as who killed Lincoln? What was the Monroe Doctrine? The teachers' average grade: 67 (below passing). Some believed that Aaron Burr assassinated Lincoln, that George Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence, and that the Civil War lasted ten years. Toughest question: Who married Pocahontas? Most teachers said John Smith. Correct answer: John Rolfe...