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Anyone who answered a question correctly was suitably rewarded . “ Thirty silver dollars to the lady ... But too often the exposure of the utter ignorance of the persons to whom comparatively simple questions were put was embarrassing .
Anyone who answered a question correctly was suitably rewarded . “ Thirty silver dollars to the lady ... But too often the exposure of the utter ignorance of the persons to whom comparatively simple questions were put was embarrassing .
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Some listener had sent in a question on the average life - span of different creatures . Ordinarily such questions and the answers that came with them were checked for accuracy by the Information Please staff but apparently the office ...
Some listener had sent in a question on the average life - span of different creatures . Ordinarily such questions and the answers that came with them were checked for accuracy by the Information Please staff but apparently the office ...
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Thus challenged , he admitted that he had no personal acquaintance with downy woodpeckers of any age and would defer decision on the whole question for a week , pending investigation . I spent that week thumbing reference books on the ...
Thus challenged , he admitted that he had no personal acquaintance with downy woodpeckers of any age and would defer decision on the whole question for a week , pending investigation . I spent that week thumbing reference books on the ...
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Contents
MYSELF WHEN YOUNG I | 1 |
THE NEWSPAPER GAME | 17 |
HOBNOBBING WITH CHAMPIONS | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Not Under Oath: Recollections and Reflections |
| Author | John Kieran |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 282 pages |
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