Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There remains the question whether the Germans will try a limited coup on the flanks of the main Western Front for the advancement of their strategic position. Neither Belgium nor Switzerland offers a very tempting target. The water lines in the one case, the mountain ranges in the other, form a formidable obstacle to rapid penetration, while Allied reinforcement to either if attacked would be comparatively easy. An incomplete success might bring more complications than advantages to the invader...
...November 1937 Ernest Hemingway finished a play about the Spanish Civil War. At that time the Spanish war was big news, and Hemingway was in Madrid covering it. Most obvious question about Hemingway's The Fifth Column was: Who would be the lucky Broadway producer...
...efts." During this phase they are immature and cannot reproduce. After three or four years, they go back to the water, slough off the red skin of adolescence, assume the olive-green garb of adults, acquire the keeled tail of an aquatic animal, and tackle the business of parenthood. Question: What impels them, after so long a time on land, to go back to the water? Scientists of an older generation would have answered, "Instinct...
...life companies-were free last week from the job of waiting on and helping SEC in its vast insurance study for the Temporary National Economic (monopoly) Committee. As far as TNEC was concerned the study had been completed. But for the big 26 there was still a question to decide. TNEC had offered to let them present further testimony on the probity of U. S. life insurance. Should they do so? Through last week officers of the big 26 went into huddle after huddle, at week's end were still undecided what...
...movie, taking in 16 movies.) It is not a slight book (371 pages), but it is the first of Adler's writings in which he has spoken expressly to the man in the street. For people who think they know how to read, he has a clarifying question: "What things would you do by yourself if your life depended on understanding something readable which at first perusal left you somewhat in the dark?" After pondering that one, most honest readers will follow the argument that: 1) intelligent reading, i.e. reading for understanding rather than merely for entertainment or information...