Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only advantages of regimentation . . . are in the offices of the gold braid. . . . Ask an enlisted WAVE who has a college degree from Wellesley what she thinks...
...disagreement, employers and employes must bargain in good faith for at least 30 days. Then, if no agreement has been reached, either side may ask Ottawa to send one of its 16 skilled conciliators around. The conciliator gets 14 more days, subject to extension if both sides agree, to seek a solution. If he fails, the dispute goes to a three-man conciliation board, which has 14 more days to try its hand at peacemaking. If the board also fails, both sides are bound to a 14-day think-it-over period...
Agriculture's recommendation: rural communities should do more than just ask for doctors. The communities should offer the prospective country medico some substantial bait: an attractive home and office, traveling expenses and a guaranteed annual income...
...work was generally referred to as his third symphony, though it is probably his fifth. (Says Stravinsky: "Don't ask me. I hate the numbers. It is a symphony in three parts.") His first symphony, written at 25 and dedicated to his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, is no longer played. He wrote another in 1920, in memory of Debussy-a seldom played twelve-minute symphony for wind instruments, which he still thinks is a wonderful work but was too new for the public then. In 1930 Koussevitsky persuaded him to write a symphony for the 50th anniversary of the Boston...
Most movies ask the audience to use only one eye-the eye trained on the world of make-believe. Documentary movies often ignore that eye, sometimes too self-righteously, and concentrate on the other eye-the one trained on the actual world. At their worst, documentaries turn actuality into something insufferably boring and unreal. At their best, they give reality a new clarity and beauty...