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Word: ask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would Harvard be it if went down this road? It would, I think not require six months to destroy the morale of both our teachers and students, and thereby our usefulness to the country. I think one need do no more than state the necessary implications of what you ask to demonstrate that nothing could be more alien to the principle of free expression that Harvard stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark Statements | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...District of Columbia. The decision approved the contempt convictions of Screen Writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo, who had been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for refusing to answer the question solely on the ground that the committee had no right to ask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Affirmed | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...face was radiant as an angel's. I said at once: 'I'll never again ask you to stay in this man's army. Your destiny is too manifest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: We Know the Russians | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...behind him, Billy was to get a respectable $2,000 a week. Said his manager last week: "Before that appearance, if the Paramount had offered us an option for next year at $3,000, we would have snapped it up. Now, we don't know how much to ask for him from week to week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. B. Goes to Town | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...ask all concerned: do not fall into the illusion that a government of violence and dishonesty is a necessary channel for the scientific view of the world, to which the future supposedly belongs. Such a future could only be a future in which man can no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hour to Speak | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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