Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question and answer, which will sound over the nation to similar medical societies practicing similar tactics, is no abstract legal issue, but a determination of whether or not such admittedly experimental plans will be granted grace to prove their success or failure. No categorical decision can be rendered on "socialized medicine" versus "private competitive practice," as every high-school debater should know. The issue has too many facets, too large a setting. Doctors (and who should know better?) are sincere in their belief that collectivism will topple the high standards of the profession. The socially conscious, on the other hand...
Richard W. B. Lewis '39 deserves the reply which he invites. Surrounded by "an arrogant confusion everywhere as to the meaning and value of attending college, . . . related as cause and effect with an analogous chaos in the world generally," Mr. Lewis has probably asked his question concerning the purpose of an intellectual institution many times before. No doubt he has met the popular pedagogical comeback, "Well, what do you think...
...question at Marietta: Resolved, That the New Deal has failed to solve the problems of Unemployment and Depression. Debater Taft asked voters, did they want an independent or a dominated Congress?, demanded protective tariffs on pottery, glassware, oil. Debater Bulkley indignantly denied that he was a Roosevelt rubber stamp, called Candidate Taft a belated New Dealer and, so far as his platform went, a copycat. Afterwards they shook hands. Next debate: at Dayton this week, Mr. Bulkley to frame the question...
...very first question has been simplified from "Who made the world?" to "Who made us?," the answer from "God made the world'' to "God made us." Considerably expanded are sections dealing with the duties of a Catholic citizen. There children will learn that a citizen pays "just taxes," exercises his right to vote, and that officeholders are bound under pain of sin not to take bribes...
...1930s, these oracles have been supplanted by a new group-educators and psychologists, who try to eliminate emotional attitudes toward the problem and express numerically the chances that a particular couple will be happy if they marry. For this purpose they question a large number of married couples in an effort to determine statistically how happy they are, what kind of personalities and opinions they have, how they have been brought up. These investigators then calculate correlations between particular personality traits and happiness. One of their most notable pronouncements is that people who like comic strips are happy in marriage...