Word: ask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another development, defeated Councillor Charles A. Watson will ask the Election Commission, pending a District Court decision Nov. 23, for a recount. Watson said that should the Court rule the 104 allegedly questionable absentee ballots invalid such action could "materially affect the distribution of surplus votes...
...similar theme occurs in conjunction with a familiar biblical echo: The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days about the place of Life, and he will live.For many who are first shall become last and they shall be come a single one . . . When you make the two one, you shall become sons of Man, and when you say: "Mountain, be moved," it will be moved...
Joyless Omens. As the biographer describes Joyce's literary struggles, the book's only drawback appears: Ellmann is so busy correlating Joyce's life and work that he attempts no critical revaluation. He does not ask if Finnegans Wake is a masterpiece, or a monstrous jungle of word play. Nor does he ask whether Joyce's famed "interior monologue" really reveals anything, or whether T. S. Eliot was correct when he suggested that "it doesn't tell as much as some casual glance from outside often tells...
...Woodrow Wilson "liberal arts"? some ask. The officials of the School reply that its program not only belongs in a liberal arts college, but is, in fact, one of the most valuable fields of concentration at Princeton. If the School acted merely to coordinate courses for its "members," it might be criticized as disunified. But the Conference and the senior seminar draw together (the various disciplines), and students presumably gain at least preliminary acquaintance with the tools of the social sciences. And, significantly, they "learn by doing," by applying these several disciplines to important public problems...
...large Placement Office-type forum provides neither an appropriate opportunity to ask specific questions about graduate departments, nor a felicitous occasion to have them answered...