Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter . . . [dated] March 29, 1917: "You ask for some anecdote about my career. Here is the career as it seems to me! I was born and now am here with a mountain of work demanding my attention night and day. Very truly yours...
Although the test did not appear in the magazine from the days of Pearl Harbor, it survived in pamphlet form for the benefit of colleges, schools, clubs and discussion groups, various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, and for those of you who wrote in to ask for it. The schools, many of which enter the test marks on their pupils' records, and the U.S. Army, which used the test at home and abroad for briefing soldiers on the news, had a special need for it which we felt obliged to fulfill...
...sights and incidents along 2,000 miles of Europe's streets and roads, perhaps the most revealing was in a square in Metz where, about midnight, two Americans in a jeep paused to ask a bearded old man the road to Saarbrücken. He said he did not speak French. Nor German either. He was a Russian. One American who spoke Russian repeated the question. The old man could not help. He had fled Russia in 1920, had lived in Poland till 1939. When the Germans took it, he went to Germany. Later he drifted into France...
...next evening, at dusk, Correspondent Newton was coming home in a taxi. As it turned into Bartholomeu Mitre Street, the dark mass of the sandpile loomed up in the mist, and Newton shouted a warning to the driver. As the chauffeur turned to ask what was wrong, the taxi plowed into the sandpile...
With costs hopping up everywhere, Charlie Wilson had only one solution: raise the price of G.M. cars $100 all around. (G.M. will soon ask OPA to okay this...