Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requires mulling over and assimilating beforehand. The man who has spent a few nightmare hours cramming at Parker-Cramer's knows most of the essential facts. He has even had a stock interpretation of the facts handed down to him. But he cannot twist this interpretation around to answer questions shot from unexpected angles. So he resorts to building a weak bridge from the question to his stock answer, and then proceeds to pour out what he has memorized. In effect he evades the question...
...Ever since I was elected alderman I have been deluged with requests for contributions from [religious and charitable] organizations who never before asked me for gifts Now I would like to post this question to the good people who are making these requests: How can an alderman satisfy them and yet remain honest? . . . With an alderman's salary what it is [$5,000], if he does make these contributions on any appreciable scale, he is almost literally forced into the 'racket...
...belt to carry on the Chinese "incident," could get her hands on these riches, they would help her in financing the rest of the war. While Chinese diplomats profess optimism over the military situation, no one was surprised when they warned Occidental powers sympathetic to China that the question of whether Japan wins or loses now depends largely on how firmly the French, British and U. S. stand on their rights in the international zones, give active support to China...
...sudden plunge into politics. Startled observers asked themselves: Are P. E. N. writers ahead of their readers or are they just catching up with the world's fear that civilization is doomed? Do they really mean to fight the forces threatening it? Answers to the second question were not long in coming...
...crew from Syracuse is still a question mark in pre-race speculation. Some have claimed poor steering was responsible for the Orange loss to Cornell over a one mile course. A man being lifted bodily out of the boat spoiled what promised to be a good race at Derby two weeks ago when the Orange faced Yale. It is true that the Crimson defeated the Syracuse boat by a decisive length and a half when it raced on the Charles, but the margin will not necessarily be the same after four weeks...