Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transatlantic Clipper at Baltimore but, unlike returning Ambassadors Kennedy and Davies, did not come out swinging for the third term. He rushed to the State Department, conferred with Secretary Hull, stopped at the White House. To reporters he would say only that he had 50 to 75 things to discuss with officials, made some inconsequential remarks look more important by making them off the record...
...what to study. Freshmen also may take a course called "Opinions and Prejudices," to discover their own. Sarah Lawrence's curriculum offers students many an unusual course: the modern dance, problems in social philosophy, Indian arts, a practical course on marriage. The college has no chapel. Instead, students discuss such topics as "Why I am an Episcopalian...
...salvos at President Roosevelt John Lewis thundered loudly on unemployment and the New Deal's failure to cure it. But precisely what he thought Mr. Roosevelt ought to do, beyond calling a conference to discuss "America's No. 1 problem," Mr. Lewis did not say. For an inkling of what might be done, his delegates had to turn to a book published and distributed last week-Organized Labor and Production (Harper; $2.50) by Morris Llewellyn Cooke and Philip Murray...
...concession, turned on the juice in the encircling electrified barbed wire. None but Italians and White Russians were allowed to take food into the concession. Concession prices rose sky high, while the Tientsin American Chamber of Commerce prepared to appeal to Washington. This week the Japanese Cabinet met to discuss what must at length be discussed in every Japanese crisis: how to back down, save face, win new popularity with the Japanese people, leave the way open for renewal of friction...
...exam, which was enclosed in a bluebook, was handed to Dowey at a reception yesterday in the Hotel Statler. The first question read, "Young men and women want to President who will give them inspiration and leadership to build a better America.' Discuss with special reference to 'New Deal Defeatism' and 'Balanced Budget.' Ten minutes...