Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...complicated machinery for quick diplomatic communication was tuned up for the conference rush of business. Only lacking was the rush of business. The President could ask Statesman Stimson a question in London and get an answer in ten minutes, if necessary. But last week it was not necessary. President Hoover had few questions to ask because Statesman Stimson was doing little. And that was just what President Hoover wanted Statesman Stimson to do at first...
...problem of the individual fitting himself to the job, has already been the basis of much discussion at Harvard, as the newly created position of Consultant on Careers testifies. Mr. Martin's thought-provoking comment is an excellent compendium on the whole question...
...cross-word puzzle, will include one such feature daily in its pages, in addition to the usual chess problem. With--a hearty laugh the business man turns to an adjoining column to find that for the first time in ten years Congress is to open discussion on the Prohibition question. Perhaps he becomes aware of that unpleasant feeling which follows untimely mirth--perhaps not. But the utter ridiculousness of the similarity is not to be evaded...
Delegates from about 60 colleges and universities of the East will participate in the conference which is called for the purpose of discussing problems of undergraduate policy and especially the question of acclimatizing the students from foreign countries to the atmosphere and ways of American college life...
Barrymore plays the part of the gallant, and still quite romantic, Count, who has lost his rightful domains because of some question of certificates. He is the son of a famous war-lord and a gypsy dancer, and maintains the reputation of both to the best of his ability. His main feats are saving the remains of a rapidly degenerating Hapsburg Empire through the medium of his mercenary soldiers, insulting an emperor and jilting an arch-duchess, marrying a gypsy girl (the trait seems to run in the family) with a rather lax set of morals, destroying the Hapsburg Empire...