Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Answer. In Chattanooga, Fire Captain Jack Case told the city commission that if the money was to be raised by a beer tax, he would refuse a $20 pay raise...
Sometimes, the going may get tough. John Bull must hold in mind the merit of the reply courteous, a point best made by Lord Halifax, whose answer to an egg barrage in Detroit was, "How lucky you are to have eggs to throw." Cheke's concluding advice: "Above all, Mr. and Mrs. Bull should school themselves and remain masters of their tempers...
Could a teacher be "free" if he belonged to a group that dictated what he should think? Certainly not, was Hook's fast answer. Did the Communist Party dictate that way? Said Hook: look...
Hook's answer: his peers. "I am confident that if the execution of the policy were left to university faculties themselves, and not to administrators and trustees who are harried by pressure groups, there would be little ground for complaint. In the last analysis there is no safer repository of the integrity of teaching and scholarship than the dedicated men and women who constitute the faculties of our colleges and universities...
...automobiles and movies (the only movie he ever saw was a documentary on the theory of relativity). But hundreds of students flocked to his classroom to join his lifelong search for truth. Where did the search lead him? This week, a year after his death, Morris Cohen gave his answer in the form of a posthumously published autobiography, A Dreamer's Journey (Beacon Press...