Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...issue of TIME of March 3, you have as a frontispiece, a fine picture of the great Pointer ''Mary Blue," with the question "Is the Setter Better?" May I be permitted to answer your question at least for one Setter...
When the United Fruit Liner Pastores docked in Manhattan one day last week, ship newsmen singled out one passenger to ask one question. The passenger was Pennsylvania's Governor John S. Fisher. The question: Would he sign a certain official paper which would release from his State's Eastern Penitentiary a certain convict? Governor Fisher told them: "I'll sign it in the routine way when I get around to it." He went on to Harrisburg, unmindful of the crescendo of public interest in the release by the State of Pennsylvania of its most famed prisoner, the No. 1 underworking...
Questiounaires are a fad. Nevertheless the propensity to inquire into other people's business acquires a significance divorced from the unpleasant character of a fetish if the knowledge sought is not cloyed with a mass of irrelevance: Many polls on the question of drinking are weighted with requests for information about various environmental influences, which, interesting as they may be to the psychologist, have little significance in relation to the fundamental free choice idea of any mass government...
...Taft, and others interested in collegiate views on prohibition will be answered. The nation-wide poll on prohibition now being conducted in colleges of the country includes representative institutions in the middle west and the far south. Michigan and Illinois, for example are canvassing their students on the liquor question. Tulane University in Louisiana will hold a straw vote, and it may be assumed that the general results of the poll will give an accurate and fair summary of the student view of prohibition. No cry of sectional bias can be raised when the final results are tabulated. The present...
...result of tryouts recently held D. I. Cooke '31, R. B. Eckles '32, and H. G. Abdian '30 have been chosen to the first three places on the Harvard debating team which tomorrow night will ppose Yale in maintaining the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States Senate should ratify the Pan-American Arbitration Treaty without Reservations...