Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Colonial Secretary MacDonald will be called upon to answer that question more fully. It was suspected that unreported Arab dissatisfaction was responsible for this sop to the Arabs, without whose sympathy a successful war in the East would be hard to wage. Meanwhile, Government whips got busy to line up the Conservatives for the important vote. Last time the House of Commons counted votes on Palestine, the Government had a majority of only 88, as compared to the usual Conservative margin of more than...
Once there was a young rat who couldn't make up his mind. Whenever the other rats asked him if he'd like to come out with them, he'd answer "I don't know." And when they said, "do you want to stay at home?" he wouldn't say yes or no either. He'd always shirk making a choice. One day his aunt said to him, "Now look here! No one'll care for you if you carry on like this. You haven't any more mind than a blade...
...itself, no one of LIFE'S houses is a final architectural answer.* But together they tot up to a highest common denominator of good U. S. design. Laymen who looked at them could see the shape of housing things to come: a decline of the dining room, an increasing use of plywood-the club sandwich of wood and glue that can lick its weight in steel...
...Vatican's reception of Mr. Taylor, patently designed to minimize his official diplomatic status, cut much ground from under the Christian Century and President Roosevelt's Baptist critics. It also enhanced the position of the Federal Council, which, declining to answer the Christian Century directly, said in its Bulletin this week: "The Federal Council's Executive Committee provisionally accepted the assurances given by the White House . . . but warned that this attitude would not continue if future events should indicate that the appointment led to official diplomatic relations with the Vatican. . . . Surely it would...
...blame the fact that few U. S. citizens like the taste of yeast, no matter how many vitamins the Fleischmann brand contains. More than a decade ago, when the U. S. housewife had quit baking bread at home, Fleischmann's swank advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, had an answer: yeast for health. By testimonials, by quotes from scientists, Standard Brands plugged yeast (three cakes a day) for pimples, constipation, that tired feeling. In rolled the money, for there is more profit percentage in a yeast-pat for an adolescent, than in a big yeast cake for a canny bakery...