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Word: answer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Owen Lattimore's turn to answer Wisconsin's blustering Joseph McCarthy, and the Senate's big caucus room was packed to capacity. A short, mild-looking man with a scraggly sandy mustache, Professor (Johns Hopkins) Lattimore settled himself down at the microphones at one end of a T-shaped table, plumped down a fat, 42-page statement in front of him, adjusted his spectacles. Then he fixed a cold eye on his accuser, who smiled indulgently on him from the ranks of distinguished visitors behind the committee table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: A Fool or a Knave | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...information booth in the Square is ready for the summer's expected upsurge in wacky requests, William P. Fitzgerald, local answer-man reported yesterday that the was giving the green and white booth its spring housecleaning, and rummaging through his reference library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Tourists Pose Weird Queries | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

Theodore Morrison, lecturer in English, coaxed the 12 visiting newsmen into doing this symposium, and in an intense introduction to the study he throws a lot of charges at the newspapers. The Niemans answer in 12 subsequent articles that tell which writing weaknesses can actually be remedied and which ones just can't be helped. The result is a valuable exercise and education for newspaper writers and newspaper readers...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Nieman Report On Journalism | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

Harvard University has come up with a dynamic new answer to the growing problem of athletic subsidization; it has become the first university which receives pay from its athletes in return for letting them wear the school colors in intercollegiate competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pay As You Row | 4/12/1950 | See Source »

...answer to a challenge by Theodore Morrison on the quality of American newspaper writing, this year's 12 Nieman Follows have compiled a 60-page study of "Reading, Writing and Newspapers" into a special edition of the Nieman Reports issued yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman Fellow Analyze the Poor Quality of American News Writing | 4/11/1950 | See Source »

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