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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...beginning of the term students face the choice of either signing up for bell duty or for "waiting on." Girls who take bells spend several hours a week at the bell desk near the front door of each dormitory. Cabot Hall" or correspondingly appropriate phrase each time they answer the phone. They are plagued by women wanting baby-sitters and boys looking for blind-dates, but are not allowed to help the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffedwellers Make Beds, Do Chores to Lower Costs | 12/7/1950 | See Source »

...seems as though the Korean war, which was going so nicely only a few weeks ago, has lost its appeal for large chunks of the American public. Businessmen's groups, conservative newspapers, people whom you would never expect it of, have decided that negotiation is the answer in Korea, that the Chinese Communists deserve a seat in the United Nations, and that World War III might not be such a party, after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walk Softly | 12/7/1950 | See Source »

Does little Johnny feel left out of things because he has no television set at home? Yesterday, students in Social Relations 265 began a survey to find the answer to this question. Dr. Eleanor MacCabe, instructor in Social Relations, is heading the investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc. Rel. Students Will Study Effects of TV on Children | 12/6/1950 | See Source »

...head of the 1,000-member University Employees Representative Association said "There are lots of questions to be answered" and called for a question-and-answer meeting of the University and H.U.E.R.A. employees. Such a meeting was held last spring when the present Retirement Plan was inaugurated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUERA Probes Social Security | 12/5/1950 | See Source »

...fourth leader rejects the insinuation, by a Czech correspondent, that Britain is in a complete funk because its citizens usually answer the question, . "How are you?" with, "It could be worse." The Times explains that the phrase is not a sign of discouragement at all. Fully expanded, it means: " 'Here am I, a man like other men, with rather more health and rather less money than most-or the other way round-neither expecting nor deserving the smile of fortune. Income tax is nine shillings in the pound; there is a depression approaching from the Azores; and I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Your Head Is on Fire | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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