Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only domestic subscriptions we can put through this spring will be renewal orders from our old subscribers (and even on these we will have to ask you to send in your renewal instructions before your present subscription expires...
During the weeks ahead I am almost sure some friend of yours will tell you how we had to ask him to wait when he asked us to enroll him as a new subscriber...
...Three hours later they came and said the third had arrived. I sweated. I didn't dare ask again. I finally went out to the phone and told the sergeant on duty at my station that I had three babies. He thought I was nuts...
...concert variety. The callers were most explicit, naming exactly what Beethoven they wanted, and by what performer. As soon as it could get its classical recording library built up, the network obliged. But the most famous request to date came from Lieut. General Mark Clark, who phoned to ask what was playing. Told that it was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, he asked for some Hawaiian music. "Who's this calling, bud?" asked the announcer. "General Clark." said the General. He quickly got Aloha...
...Harvard '78, a high-tariff Republican Congressman (1897-1907), a philanthropist whose most noted single gift ($2,250,000) founded Harvard's graduate School of Public Administration and Littauer Center. In 1939 he said he had "confidence for the future in spite of the present." In 1941, asked his opinion of the world at large, he sighed, "Don't ask me that. I'm a pessimist...