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Word: questionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Waggish professors in elementary physics never fail to put to their classes such a question as: "If a stone deaf man, alone on the moon, should shoot off a cannon, would there be any sound?" Ensnared students readily answer yes; should answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earless Hearing | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...including all the voting Theatres and a majority of the voting Film stock. As the major issue in the entire Fox litigation had been the possession of these 150,101 shares, and as the purchasing company had been closely allied with the anti-Fox party, there was no question but that Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co. and John Edward Otterson, of Electrical Research Products, Inc., major Fox opponents, were unqualifiedly the victors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fox Out | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Queen" Mary mustered about 200 followers; Judge Dewhirst the same. Thus it was not surprising that, after months of litigation, the question was settled out of court by dividing equally the cult's property and wealth, reputedly a matter of several hundred thousand dollars, farmlands in Michigan and Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: House Divided | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...gallery gods are dying. People who used to sit in the balconies at the Theatre, now prefer, at the same expense, to occupy the best seats in the gaudy shrines of Cinema. How to fill the emptying baloconies of Broadway's legitimate houses is a troublesome question to theatre managers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Playchoice | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...gone," as a practical businessman who lived for many years in a community where every white man had a pitch black Congo woman, Dr. Puleston has stated that such a relation did not appear to harm either health or mentality. Whether it harmed morals he considers a mere emotional question of opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Congo | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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