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Word: answer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phraseology of most of the letters is identical, saying: "My husband [father, son, brother, nephew, friend, etc.] is a good man but a habitual alcoholic. Please send the drug mentioned in TIME. I enclose a check for . . ." or "send antabus whatever it costs." In undertaking to answer each communication, Dr. Jacobsen has told all of the senders-except physicians and commercial firms-to have their doctors write to him. His position is that antabus medication is a "chemical incarceration" intended to "help alcohol addicts around a dangerous corner," and that in so doing a doctor's advice is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...impossible to ask him [Acheson] or any other nominee precisely what policies he will pursue, because he or any other nominee will pursue whatever policies are directed by the President. Only the President himself can answer the question, and the answer may sometimes be quite impromptu and unpredictable. We cannot control foreign policy through our action on this or any other nominee. I want to make that plain. Therefore, it should be made wholly obvious that we do not underwrite the results, in terms of foreign policy, which will flow from our confirmation of this or any other nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Secondary Responsibility | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Mistaken as well as correct answers can be detected by Dyer's appliance. If a desperate student marked all answer blanks the machine, when set for counting errors, would turn in a score of 400 for every hundred questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inhuman Test Corrector Has Perfect Score | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

What graduates feel that way, Mr. Pond? Not I, certainly, nor a good many other Harvard graduates, I'll wager. You give me the answer in the next sentence--"the conservative element...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pond-James Exchange | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

...University Senate, after a state legislative committee's report had been discredited, questioned six faculty members, exonerating five of them, including Phillips and Butterworth. A sixth man was recommended for dismissal because he refused to answer questioning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Won't Teach at College Firing 'Reds', Says Aiken | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

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