Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been proposed that we answer these persecutions by bringing over twenty German students to be education at Harvard. This is a project that will take not only thought, but energy, time and money. Instead of boiling over with futile talk, here is a chance to do something. There are people to be convinced; there is money to be raised; practical means must be devised for selecting the students and getting them started here. A committee has been set up the collection of funds has begun...
...University's duty to discover if the aims of a high-minded minority are realized, if the drive has created dissension or solidarity in the student body. The University by the very nature of its dollar-for-dollar proposition, is testing student altruism: It must abide by the answer...
Haled before the grand jury, Brother Joseph refused to answer questions except about the mysterious Del Gado, said the story of the false-bottomed car was "theatrical." Under grilling he broke down, crying: "I am a poor man. . . . I've always been an honorable one. ... If this jury indicts me I hope it won't make the bail too high." The jury did indict him, along with Mayor Shaw's civil service commissioner, William Cormack, and another officeholder named only as "John Doe," on felony charges carrying a possible 14-year prison sentence...
This week the No. 1 question in the world was what to do to help the Jews. Irish Catholic Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got credit for having activated Neville Chamberlain's negotiations in Paris which found a partial answer to the question. Nowhere were people more horrified at Adolf Hitler's pogrom than in Britain. A poll showed that more than seven Britons out of ten, while sympathetic to Chamberlain, considered the Nazi terror a bar to Chamberlain's "appeasing" relations with the Reich...
...most important question for physics to answer is: What is matter made of? A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules. The molecules are built of atoms. Twenty years ago the ancient Greek notion persisted that atoms were indivisible. Then Ernest Rutherford of England split nitrogen atoms with atomic bullets from radium. Seven years ago physicists were willing to analyze all the matter in the universe in terms of two parts of the atom: protons and electrons...