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Word: answer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to this question is almost inherent in the statement of the problem. No matter how harmless the law may read, the Teachers' Oath does actually qualify liberty of thought and speech. The law may not now infringe upon the freedom of the university, but that it may do so in the near future is quite conceivable. Either the present Act may expand in scope or it may simply be the wedge for more stringent laws. Obviously, in contrast to such a threat, any considerations of "town-gown" relations are insignificant. Harvard must again employ all its influence and prestige...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...ominous beginning the All-India Committee passed a resolution demanding that India be allowed to write her own Constitution and urged sending to Britain a six-month ultimatum as the proper period for a reply to India's "national demand." Failing a satisfactory answer in that time, the Party would be free to take matters into its own hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Coming Struggle | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Next to questions about weather and health, the most often-asked news-question in the U. S. is "How's Business?" Ever since business has been called business, men have sought an inclusive answer to that question-and an answer exclusive of wishful (or fearful) opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ANNOUNCEMENT | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Like every one else, the Council comes to the not very startling conclusion that the only permanent answer is an eighth House. This is actually wishful thinking, because for all practical purposes a new House must be relegated to the if and when category, dependent upon the appearance of a fairy godfather. In the stop-gap measures designed to meet the needs of the present there is more to interest the homeless three hundred, whose hearts palpitate not one whit faster at the thought of a new House ten years from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE ARE SEVEN | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

Flack termed the whole thing as a hoax, and said that he had no knowledge of the advertisement putting the college on the block which appeared recently in a New York newspaper. Shor ran across the ad two weeks ago, and in answer to his inquiries, received a letter signed by "W. R. Flack" which named $250,000 as the purchase price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARYLAND COLLEGE PURCHASE FAILS; DEAN CRIES 'HOAX' | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

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