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Word: questions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broken. Crowed one Spanish negotiator: "If I refuse to do business with a man simply because I don't like his face or manner, I would not change my mind even if he were to give me his diamond ring to back a deal. If I accept, the question of principle is settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Loan at Last | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...last week to the New York Herald Tribune. "What is a liberal? A man who wants . . . higher taxes and more schools or lower taxes and more business, more government or less government? . . . I'm confused." The Trib, which cherishes its liberalism as much as its Republicanism, passed the question to its readers. Over a hundred definitions poured in, and a few shed a little light on one of the most overworked words in the modern vocabulary. Some serious and not so serious samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: What Is a Liberal? | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

High Center. Where did the Republican Party stand? The response to Tom Dewey indicated that the question was far from settled. Two days later in Detroit, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg tried his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: High Roads & Dead Pigeons | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...What do you mean by 'democracy,' " I asked. The question brought a long pause-as it usually does. Then the mayor said hesitantly, "Democracy is the people venturing to express themselves openly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IN RURAL JAPAN | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Jerusalem last week, Supreme Court President Justice Moshe Smoira regarded the petition as having raised an interesting question. Said he: "The action we will take turns on the question of jurisdiction-on whether our court can be considered a successor court to the Sanhedrin or can go into a purely religious question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Motion for Rehearing | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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