Word: questions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next debate in the Harvard Union will be held in Sever Hall, at 7.30 P.M., Thursday, December 15. The question is: Resolved, That Utah should be admitted into the Union as a State...
...that my selection - influenced, I will confess, by the judicious taste of the salesman - would be approved by my friends as correct and even "tough," though not too marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised to settle at some future time. A man's clothes at Harvard are somewhat like the ablative in Latin: they express manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could not but ponder with much anxiety on the question, how long the coattails should...
This gentleman, on hearing my question, assumed a very judicial air, and for a time spake nothing. Not a spear of his untrimmed red hair, curled up at the extremities like a roof-gutter, trembled. Indeed, I grew impatient of his long delay, when suddenly I discovered that his lips had been moving, and he had in fact just come to the end of a sentence, expressing his opinion. I began to think that if silence was golden, speech must also be golden, since they were so nearly indistinguishable...
...said Professor Agony, looking over his shoulder. "They're made in the dominant fashion. The resolution of this question of diminished tone depends upon whether the previous cadence of fashion has come to an authentic close, - I mean come to an end. I mean - no, rub that out. You know you must n't have too much unity in variety, nor too much variety in unity, but just enough unity...
...answered Yung, with a sigh; for the question had called up torturing thoughts in his mind...