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Word: asked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ask anyone who has seen them in action against the Jerry [to] tell you about them. They'll tell you when they have them on their flanks they are sure of security in that section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Lovable Rabbit | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...publisher was not unaware of Hardy's possibilities: "You see," he concluded, "I am writing to you as to a writer who seems to me of, at least potentially, considerable mark. . . . If this is your first book I think you ought to go on. May I ask if it is, and-you are not a lady, so perhaps you will forgive the question-are you young?" Replied modest young Hardy faintly: "Would you mind suggesting the sort of story you think I could do best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Macmillan's First 100 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...Wives Club meets on Tuesday and Thursday at 1400 of each week on the second deck of the Harvard Union. Tuesday, the meeting is set aside for talks by prominent people. Thursday, the meeting is for an afternoon of Bridge and Ten. Tell your wife about this club and ask her to attend the meetings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Recreation | 2/11/1944 | See Source »

...assertions." Heiden believes that "it is this art of contradiction which makes him the greatest . . . propagandist of his time. . . . He follows the shifting currents of public opinion," knowing always that "the weakness of this intellectual age" is its search for "the man who can master it. ... One scarcely need ask with what arts he conquered the masses; he did not conquer them, he portrayed and represented them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of the Masses | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...misled. "No trade-union leader called for determined resistance [because] the education of the working masses in the ideals of the economic age was now making itself felt. The worker, taught for decades that the only thing he had to fight for was his material interests, was bound to ask himself whether these interests would be better served by resistance to the new order or by participation in it." He chose Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of the Masses | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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