Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found that Hogan talked spontaneously enough about Fort Worth's summers, the joys of the California climate-and about golf, except when a direct question was asked. One of them, a naive query about putting, produced a horrified "You're not going to say that in your story?" from Hogan. Perfectionist Hogan began to worry and, later, complained: "You're getting this all mixed up." Said Smith: "Look, your game is golf; this story is my business. Let me handle...
...first big show of the 81st Congress and Texas' florid old Tom Connally promptly fumbled his lines. He had moved his Foreign Relations Committee into the marble-pillared Senate caucus room. The hearing, Tom Connally announced, was "on the question of the nomination of Dean Acheson as Under Secretary of State." A murmur of correction ("Secretary!") rose from the press tables. Connally, beaming under the klieg lights, brushed off the advice: "He's still Under Secretary until he's confirmed." Then, after recalling that Acheson was still a citizen without public office, he added...
Maryland's waspish Millard Tydings had one more question: What if Acheson could not accept any foreign policy course that the President should suggest? "I anticipate nothing so unhappy," Acheson said. "But should it arise, I would resign...
...Without exception, students should be allowed to see their corrected exams and to discuss them with some official of the course in question. This point has been made in these columns many times, and it deserves to be made again. If there is any educational value at all in the business of taking examinations, a large part of it is lost when a student can not find out what was good and what was poor in his paper...
...Note--To give a complete explanation of the award problem would require too much space, since the HAA has scores of reservations and ruling ratifications. In trying to boll down the subject to reasonable size, the editorial in question was obliged to over-simplify in presenting both problem and solution. Even Mr. Norris has failed to mention all the technicalities; for instance, in cross-country, the first three places in the H-Y-P meet receive major letters. It is also true that Mr. Bingham and his staff are currently aware of the problem, but they have been aware...