Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Anyone who wants to trim Government spending is apt to be branded as a narrow-minded pinchpenny who would starve the poor, paralyze the processes of government and hold back progress. None of these charges would quite fit Mississippi's Representative Jamie L. Whitten, or answer what he had discovered about the living habits of the U.S. Insect-Control Agency, the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. His House appropriations subcommittee had dispatched three congressional investigators to discover how the bureau had spent its last $7,000,000 budget. Sample findings...
Skardon suggested lunch. Afterwards Fuchs said, "I have decided to answer your questions." Then Fuchs told Skardon how he had first met a Russian agent in 1942, had arranged recognition signals for future meetings with other agents (some Russian, some of "unknown nationality"), how he had methodically passed top-level atomic information to them for nearly seven years, in New York, Los Alamos and London...
...that exhibit by heart. The newspapers in the reading room are a year old." Moviegoers may write their gripes in a Complaints Register, but it does not do much good. Reported Evening Moscow's crusading newsmen: "Once a patron asked a question. Mme. Nosovaya, the cashier, refused to answer him. The manager entered in the book: 'The cashier was too busy; she had no time to talk...
Astronomers, who do most of their observing with photography, have no answer to the controversy. But they are sure that twinkling of a sort goes on even inside their telescopes. The result is a fuzzy disc on the photographic plate which often ruins their work...
...problem pointed up in the Dean's report is very important. The answer to it lies not in dreams about a smaller enrollment but in constructive action in the Houses. If House Masters pooled their experiences with present methods and discussed new ones, they could map out a definite program that would make the system resemble the Harkness ideal regardless of whether there are 300, 365, or even 400 men in a House...