Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondered, after reading "so many ignorant and screwy letters" written to TIME by its 7-out-of-10 college-graduate readers, "whether it's smart for me to finish college...
...have got to face it together. ... It is not just Youth. To be sure it matters more to Youth. Youth wants to begin living, it is vital for them. But we have all got to face it and face it together. . . . This goes down to the roots of whether civilization goes on or civilization dies, as many civilizations have died in the past. It is nothing new for a civilization to come to the end. We have seen it happen over and over again. It is just a question of whether we have the brains to keep it from happening...
Opposition to authorizing improvement of Guam's facilities for seaplanes and small naval craft was hung on two main pegs by Congressmen who, whether or not they had thought it all the way through, were eloquent on their favorite objections...
Main question taken up last week in the arms debate in Commons was whether or not to double the Government's total borrowing allowance for rearmament from $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000. (Of this year's contemplated armament appropriation, $1,150,000,000 will be paid for by taxation, $1,750,000,000 by borrowing. Probably no higher British income taxes will be imposed.) Bigger borrowing won 432-to-5, the five dissenters being confirmed pacifists...
Ribbing reporters asked whether the Führer had paid off in stage money, the Nazis' frozen marks. "Not on your life," came back Miss Daniels. "I danced for real money-$1,000 with all expenses. And that plane trip was expensive too, particularly since I never go anywhere without Mother...