Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...dawn the next day a curious crowd began to collect before the great grim wall of the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia to watch the Capone coming-out party. Policemen appeared, formed lines. When two closed vans rattled out of the prison gate, the crowd pressed forward with a common question, "Is Capone in there?" The Philadelphia Record spread a scare-headed story that Chicago gunmen were in town to "get" the prisoner when he emerged. The Warden informed newsmen that Capone had had scrambled eggs for breakfast. This fact was flashed over the country. From Harrisburg came word that Governor...
Oldtime campaigners when approached with the question as to whom they would nominate as champion hunter of Greene County usually designate Donald Henderson of Nineveh and Elza Shiver of Spraggs. There are no necessary qualifications for captaincy of competing teams except that the candidate must be one of the "gang" and a leader in affairs of the countryside...
...Collier's magazine, which began a Wet series in 1928. Liberty's editorial this week said: ". . . since its open espousal of the Wet cause the circulation of Liberty has increased much more rapidly than before." Liberty announced a $1,000 per week prize for the best answers to this question: "Are you Wet or Dry?" And last week Life, exhibiting some of the initiative by which for 40 years it has made citizens not only laugh but think, inaugurated a crusade for consummate shrewdness...
Given $1,000,000, how many people would continue to work? Dr. Harry Dexter Kitson, psychologist and Professor of Education at Columbia Teachers' College pondered this question, determined to find out just how interested people are in their jobs. Most accessible for his experiment were teachers and nurses. To them he put this question: ''As the 100 degree point, think of that activity in which you would spend a major portion of your time if you had $1,000,000 and were not obliged to work. Then check the point on the scale which denotes your interest...
...first place, if one question is answered well enough there is not time to consider those following. On the other hand, to write upon both in such a limited space of time results in superficiality, the greater evil of the two. The final upshot is that the decision of whether the student has a thorough knowledge of his subject or else is merely slipping through on a wide but varied acquaintance with the questions rests upon the corrector, a situation that is distinctly unfortunate...