Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply to this slight was a prompt announcement that he would run anyway, independently if necessary. It was not necessary. Governor Homer's faction, which has long been looking for some way to shake its rival's Cook County dominance, immediately saw in Judge Jarecki the answer to its prayer...
...Nations-was not even debated, an unprecedented abstention from the time-honored French pastime of heckling every Premier. Apparently the Deputies and Senators believed Edouard Daladier when he told them that French institutions were menaced by nationwide strikes as grave as those in Italy in 1922-to which the answer was Italian Fascism. The moderate Premier, with his reputation for courage and firmness, quietly threw such a scare into even the Communists that their leaders last week began offering cooperation in the settlement of sit-down strikes which had paralyzed the French metal and aviation industries, vital sinews of defense...
...that question there are three possible answers: 1) life was planted on earth by divine power; 2) life emerged from nonliving matter by some pregnant combination of chemical circumstances; 3) life was transported to earth in meteorites or some other carrier, from somewhere else in the universe. Quite satisfactory to many people is the first answer, which renders further inquiry into the problem superfluous. Most biologists, however, prefer to make a choice between the second and the third...
...angel referred to in the title is the genuine article, descending by real wings from a real heaven, in answer to the hero's assertion that he won't marry until just such a celestial being appears. The situation is not prepossessing, but the elaboration of the angel's initiation into the vanities and the compromises of the world, proves quite amusing. The angel has taken it from Mr. Keats that beauty is truth and vice-yersa, and so she has to be cured of the habit of absolute honesty, at least so far as social amenities are concerned...
...routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should do, and nothing they should...