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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer listed as correct for that question is No. 3, and that is, of course, an error, as No. 5, obviously, is the right answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

After several days' silence, Secretary of State Cordell Hull let it be known that U. S. naval vessels and patrol plane were engaging in "scheduled exercises" near Martinique (see p. 17). Soon afterward he got a reassuring answer from Petain. At Martinique are some no U. S.-made warplanes, aboard the French aircraft carrier Beam. Besides the eight destroyers of the U. S. patrol flotilla, several cruisers of the recently reorganized Atlantic Squadron are on a training cruise to the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, are 12,000 officers and men of the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Arms and the Man | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Question: When is a plant not a plant? Answer: When it goes to court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biology in Court | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...speaker of the team will talk for approximately eight minutes on his given subject, and each subject will fit into the next so that the five topics will form a complete whole. The speakers, coached by Frederick C. Packard, Jr., associate professor of Public Speaking, will be prepared to answer questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH WILL SEND SPEAKERS TO TEACH ALIENS | 11/6/1940 | See Source »

...have a personal theory that might answer the problem of perpetual motion? Do you think the Einstein theory is cuckoo? Or do you have an idea that will revolutionize anything? Thus last February Los Angeles station KNX announced the advent of What's On Your Mind?, the ultima Thule in audience-participation shows. Since that time the program has spread itself over a CBS Pacific network, more than doubled West Coast sales for its sponsor, Planters Nut & Chocolate Co. Last week it was well ahead of regional rivals, rated more popular on the Coast than such national favorites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: What's On Your Mind? | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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