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Word: ask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brilliant Nikolai Bukharin, former head of the Third International, said: "When you ask yourself, 'If you must die, what are you dying for?' an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness. There was nothing to die for if one wanted to die unrepented. And . . . everything positive that glistens in the Soviet Union acquires new dimensions in a man's mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Show Trial | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...stare and take the first opportunity of getting back into the talk." If the British custom of retiring after dinner is not observed in Mauretania, John Bull is encouraged to show firmness: "If Mr. Bull wishes to leave the drawing room, he must simply stroll from the room . . . and ask a servant to direct him to the cloak room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: The Thing to Avoid | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Council Displaced Person Committee will ask the Chairman of the seven House Committees and Dean Bender tomorrow to authorize a drive in the Houses to raise $1 per man up to a total of $2200 for seven DP's who are expected to come to the College next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council DP Group Will Seek Bender OK in Fund Drive | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

...poll did ask one worthwhile question; "Do you think that the dining hall system would profit from an impartial survey by a firm of restaurant specialists." It is perfectly true that the four to one vote for this survey cannot be considered a responsible student mandate because the question was phrased in the abstract, and took no consideration of the possible disadvantages of such a survey. It offered, in short, a simple, unthinking way to express general dissatisfaction with Harvard food...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thought for Food | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

...Impressed by the success of cut-rate coach fares, Northwest Airlines said it would ask CAB approval for a coach fare of $96.80 from New York to Seattle (regular fare: $157.85), slightly lower than even nonscheduled lines fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Trade Winds | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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