Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time for a change. When the convention met, a fortnight ago, Delegate Joseph Smallwood, 46, who had turned from writing to farming and from pig raising to politics, came out flatly for confederation. He proposed that the convention send a delegation to Ottawa at once to ask for terms. It was just like old times. Delegate Kenneth Brown, president of the Fishermen's Protective Union, jumped to his feet, roared his opposition with such vigor that he collapsed and had to be carried out. When just about every delegate had had his say, the convention voted, rejected the confederation...
While such diverse institutions as Bowdoin, Dartmouth, William and May, and Wisconsin have no specific entrance requirements, allowing students to pass off all required courses as a part of regular college work, other ask entering students to show as much as three years of mathematics and three of languages, ancient or modern...
...beat him in the stretch run. Sometimes riders see the wisdom of their instructions at the time, but change their minds later. Daring little Eddie Arcaro is the best rider in the business because he attunes himself to each horse's temperament and capacity, knows just when to ask its best. At the first turn, Stymie and Assault were 15 lengths behind the leaders. When Stymie finally let go, Arcaro clucked to Assault. They whizzed by the pacemakers entering the stretch, Stymie on the outside and Assault on the rail. Said Arcaro: "I rapped him three times with...
Nobody-least of all her teachers-could understand how that Traubel girl managed to get any education at all. Even the teachers assumed that Helen would be a singer; sometimes they'd ask for a song. Helen would sing Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland; if any boy groaned, "I'd bounce him on the head as I went by." When she got too far behind in her studies Father Otto hired a tutor, told her to "kindly stuff this little goose." Says Helen Traubel today: "I may be a numskull scholastically, but what I remember of my family...
...ask all student-veterans at Harvard to join with the present 700 members of AVC here in working for a vigorous, non-partisan liberal program. Recent events demonstrate the pressing need for active participation in the influencing of problems on the international, national, and college level. We need every veteran at Harvard to work for those progressive measures which are, in the long run, to the best interests of both himself and every citizen...