Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine men sat down to discuss the miners' demand for a "checkoff" system in the anthracite mines. Four of them were operators' representatives, four miners' officials, and one was Rinaldo Cappellini, who was seated unofficially because on Aug. 1 he was to have officially displaced one of the miners' representatives...
Declines to discuss politics in response to invitation by Chicago Post of American Legion, but says triumph of principles is at hand. March...
Fifty-three countries sent 817 delegates to a twelve-day conference at Portschach (southern Austria) to discuss The Place of the Boy in the Nations of the World. The official language, in the words of an Englishman, Basil Matthews, was " English, or perhaps I should rather say, American." The conference was deeply stirred by reports of boy labor under terrible conditions in the developing factory system of the Far East...
Meanwhile she married Signor Checci, actor and journalist. To the couple was born one daughter, Manchette, who was brought up in a convent and forbidden forever to discuss the stage, even with her mother. Manchette married an Oxford...
...American journalism avoids the things that people are most interested in." Or, rather, the magazine editor is trying to capture the reader's "interest," rather than to discover and discuss the reader's " interests." The editor who is concerned only with capturing the reader's interest is likely to be merely a merchant of sensations; the editor who is concerned primarily with the reader's interests may be, in the best sense of an abused word, a statesman...