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Word: asked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sooner Said ... In Phoenix, Ariz., service station attendant Dwight Gressley was found shot to death, his dead body slumped over an unfinished letter: ". . . There is a wave of robberies out here and those guys shoot and ask questions afterwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...ashamed to ask you to extend a helpful hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 1/9/1947 | See Source »

...predict a possible slogan for the 1948 presidential campaign-"Put things right with-Ike!" Ike Eisenhower, of course. Don't ask me which party will shout it; that, time will decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...which is our domicile and TIME-LIFE'S Nanking office. I cannot even begin to convey the amount of personal effort and frustration we put into the housing quest. As an old China hand puts it: "If you hear of a house in Nanking, you don't ask to see it; you take it on the spot sight unseen and then you look over what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...wonder about most wonder boys is whatever became of them. But no one in the magazine field has to ask what happened to Otis L. Wiese. Twenty years ago this week he was hired by McCall's as a cub assistant. A year later, at 23, he was editor, and took the floundering magazine and its 2,000,000 ladies by the hand. Last week they were still holding hands; the magazine had long stopped floundering and the ladies numbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man in a Woman's World | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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