Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gratitude to God for the repeal of Prohibition. The fathers promptly celebrated; unfortunately so did a party in the apartment-house next door. According to the tale, the party eventually addressed their neighbors as "swizzling monks", and the brothers leaned out of the window to reply. Their exact answer has never been recorded...
...proponents of the $665,000,000 naval bill afraid of a Jap-German coalition attacking us simultaneously in both oceans? The answer to this is, again in the words of Major Eliot, that "considering further the extreme difficulty of coordinating with efficiency the operations of the forces of a great alliance as against a single determined power . . . we may well rest content with a degree of naval strength which enables us to be superior to any one enemy or possible coalition which may menace us on either side." If the Navy is worried about getting from one ocean...
...regards the editor's accusation that current events are considered equally important with factual scientific training, I can only answer that I wish they were. In deciding grades, and who shall continue on in the course, intelligence and the student's aptitude in the "factual scientific work" are the only considerations. There is absolutely no coercion brought to bear on the student with regard to his personal opinions concerning our different current events. This is what our "fellow-traveler" of the A.S.U. calls un-American and un-democratic teaching--condemnation of "reds" and others who advocate the overthrow...
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON;--The answer to the prayer of every poor sinner who ever said. "Oh, let's get the hell out of this mess!" is a south sea island. Be it the Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane...
...Council's plan would make it possible for a good Harvard swimmer to win his big H regardless of Yale's strength. The swimmers themselves feel that this plan is the best answer to the whole problem. The recommendation will undoubtedly come up for discussion at the next session of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...