Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Default. By every available piece of evidence, the voters had already made up their minds to answer: yes, it's time for a change. That was why Earl Warren could afford to campaign like a big, friendly Saint Bernard, tail-wagging his way east across the nation. The Republicans had only to raise no ruckus, make no thumping blunders, keep their fingers crossed against a world upheaval-and their election seemed assured...
...woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances as a C sharp and C natural grinding together; at other times, to an orchestral accompaniment that was as clear and gentle as Mozart. The songs seldom ended in the same key as they had begun, often wound...
Rumors have circulated to the effect that the Committee may have in mind shelving the whole matter until a later date when construction costs drop to a lower level. Saltonstall refused to answer all specific questions but did confess that he considered building expenses today "quite high...
Since then, Valpey's lads have slogged through six weeks of spring training and have been belting the daylights out of each other on Soldiers Field since September 7. The answer is still "yes." The 1948 schedule is all meat. As of today, the Varsity is rated as underdog against Columbia, Army, Princeton and Dartmouth. Yale, Holy Cross, Brown and Cornell are regarded as tossups...
...happens every fall. Maybe only a few times, if you're lucky, but it happens. Somebody walks up to you, strikes you on the back, and says "What's new?" This year, the answer is simple. Just mention the collection of blinking green traffic lights on the road to Wellesley, the Howard Johnson's on the Square, the television set in Jim's Place, the Three Brothers' Valateria's fancy tailor-newsstand-shoeshine establishment on Mt. Auburn Street, the refurbishing in Felix', the shoe and book sections at the Coop, or the Music Department's appointment of Randall Thompson. They...