Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, members and lucky strangers sat through a dull "Question Time." It was just ending when Clement Attlee slipped in, scarcely noticed. Ernest Bevin, for one, did not see him. Bevin was on his feet answering a foreign policy question. Attlee slid down the bench just in time to avoid his Foreign Secretary's 240-lb. bulk as Bevin took a pace back, prepared to sit down...
...Gude Sir Patrick Spens" in the old Scottish ballad was "the best when sailor that ever sail'd the sea." Nevertheless, when the King assigned him to command a bad-weather cruise to Norway, gude Sir Patrick asked a question his namesake may have cause to repeat: "O wha is this has done this deed and tauld the king...
Whether these stylocrats and their emulators really make fashions, or merely make people like them, is a delicate question. Last week in Paris, Mrs. Snow made a stab at answering it: "The editors must recognize fashions while they are still a thing of the future. The dressmakers create them, but without these magazines, the fashions would never be established or accepted...
...million-ton capacity of the U.S. steel industry enough for an expanding economy? In the debate on this question, steel industry spokesmen, while conceding that there are now shortages in supply, maintain that their capacity is sufficient for the long pull. Assorted critics, ranging from Government economists to ideological warriors, insist that unless 10 to 20 million additional tons of capacity are built, depression may result...
Stabbed by Pygmies. Dr. Paul R. Hawley, a major general in World War II, now medical chief of the Veterans Administration, arrives at the question: "Did cholera defeat Custer?" By psychoanalytical deduction, Hawley concludes that Custer's Last Stand can definitely be traced to a cholera epidemic at Fort Riley on the Kansas River in 1867, nine years before the battle...