Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to conceal will sooner or later leak out . . . Let the censor explain why you cannot say a shell exploded about 100 feet from the office where two Americans were working . . . Let him explain why you cannot say other shells exploded . . . Finally, let the censor answer the question, 'If the Reds shell a city, do they or don't they know...
Back to Normalcy. After that, the Smith faction decided to force Ashby's hand on the question of faculty tenure. At a meeting of the faculty cabinet-an administrative holdover from pre-Ashby days-it pushed through a vote recommending that all the Smith boys be given life contracts. The board of trustees gave a fast and brusque answer. They told Smith and Mabee that they were fired. The trustees also informed three other teachers-a member of the political science department, the director of the fine arts school, and a member of the music department-that their contracts...
...Canterbury: "The Baptists, I understand, make it a condition of membership that the members shall be teetotalers." "Shame!" cried indignant members. Said the Venerable Percy Hartill, Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent: "Wine properly so called means fermented grape juice and not just grape juice .". . It is simply a question of whether the Church dares . . . to vary what our Lord appointed as the outward sign...
...question was how to stop them. Confessed L.I.U.'s famed Coach Clair Bee: "Why should I pay $100 for a scouting report when I know everything there is to be known about them. [They're] terrific." He sent his men into a zone defense, a desperation move...
...visibility, the defroster keeps the entire windshield clear. Seats are wider, 60 inches in front and 58⅜ inches in the rear. Both the Fleetline (with the torpedo back) and the Styleline (with the square "bustle back") have Chevvy's 90 h.p. valve-in-head engine. The inevitable question: Is Chevrolet as handsome as the Ford? Some shoppers would think that Ford's front end is more clean-cut. Whether or not Chevrolet's rounded overall design is more graceful than the boxier Ford is a point that will be argued for months...