Word: perplexing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, Michigan's sober Arthur H. Vandenberg mulled the question that will perplex the U.S. for months to come: "What shall we say ... to govern our own American delegate when he is called upon finally to vote in respect to the use of force . . . without the constitutional concurrence of Congress? That will raise a very interesting question. ... It cannot be settled at Dumbarton Oaks. It cannot be settled by any international conference. It is nobody's business but ours...
...Harvard University but by the Aeolian-Skinner Company which built it. And the Friends of the Bach Organ, an enthusiastic group of patrons, continues struggling to raise the sum that Aeolian-Skinner demands for it. As to why the University has done nothing about purchasing the organ-that should perplex no one. The Corporation just isn't interested. It will barter its birthright to acquire a new scientific instrument, or some rare species of flora for the Arnold Arboretum, but when it comes to seeing the value of a thing like the Bach Organ, which reaches hundreds of people...