Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discuss his troubles with him, President Hoover twice last week summoned his best legislative friends to his White House breakfast table. There together they pondered the imponderable forces of politics that seemed to be working against the President. What concerned President Hoover was the Senate's protracted discussion of the Tariff, with its consequent delay to other important legislation. He spoke darkly of thousands of U. S. employes on public works who would have to be laid off unless Congress voted them money soon, then warned Congress not to spend more money than the budget authorized...
There's been discussion aplenty of late about the advisability of the amateur hockey teams adopting the rules and regulations which govern professional rink play and, if the simon purse do seem inclined to take such action, just how much of the 1929-30 edition of the Code Calder they should adopt. A couple of months ago when college sextets were preparing for their winter campaigns, New England coaches and officials assembled to discuss just such changes, but the idea was dismissed until another season and those gathered in solemn conclave concentrated on the problem of rule interpretation. Both...
...preparation, he must be corrected. Seven members of the Debating Council studied that question for weeks, collected a mass of original material, went to Symphony Hall determined to place the question in its more serious aspects before the audience. We felt and still feel that much more than a discussion of national prohibition was involved. It is true that we did not make the difference between national prohibition as one problem, and the repeal of the Baby Volstead Act another, stand out vividly enough. Had we done so, we might have won the debate. We do not complain...
...lives Chrysis the courtesan, the woman from Andros. She is the scandal of the island, not because of her loose behavior, for she is both dignified and circumspect, but by her "airs and graces." She gives weekly banquets, to which she invites all the most attractive young men: they discuss high matters of philosophy. "She cited often the saying of Plato that the true philosophers are the young men of their age. 'Not,' she would add, 'because they do it very well; but because they rush upon ideas with their whole soul. Later one philosophizes for praise...
Professor Whittlesey has a course, Geography 1, which meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in room forty-one of the Geology Museum. There during the next ten weeks he will discuss "the different types of agriculture found on the earth: first the sorts of farming within the tropics, next those of middle latitudes, progressing constantly away from the Equator." That program has just the flavor of the unusual to attract to the Vagabond. Incidentally, Professor Whittlesey is treating the course this year from an entirely new angle. Confidentially, it is reported that even his jokes are of the 1930 vintage...