Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the ingredients of a movie are dancing by Astaire, singing by Crosby, and music by Berlin, it's a sure-fire hit. For entertainment "Holiday Inn" almost hits the top; all a spectator could ask would be more music and less story. By way of songs, this show turns out to be one of the most prolific in months. Besides the warmed over Berlin favorites, "Lazy" and "Easter Parade," two new tunes are noteworthy, "White Christmas" and "Be Careful, It's My Heart." Astaire at his agile best with an inebriate routine and a firecracker number shows his first...
...often been condemned by students from other states as an unnecessary burden, but when it is realized the amount of fire and police protection the community affords each student, a small contribution to the Community Fund in way of repayment of this debt, is not too much to ask...
Instituted for the first time this fall, the Harvard Service Fund will endeavour to cover all charities, thus freeing students from the soliciting of many different organizations. In order to fulfill this work, as well as meet the demands of new charities, and increased war budgets, the Fund will ask this year for a contribution of seven dollars per student...
Many a local board thinks that the only thing needed is more & more soldiers. Some have no recognition of what a modern war involves. Many employers feel it unpatriotic to ask for the deferment of their technical men. Many of the technical men feel that they will be slackers if they allow their employers to ask for deferment. And still more, many employers and men have asked for deferment in a fainthearted way and when a 1-A classification appeared, failed to take advantage of the provision by the Selective Service system for an appeal...
That reality, no doubt, was clear to swarthy, scheming Pierre Laval when, on the day new Madagascar attacks were launched, he conferred first with German Consul General Krug von Nidda, then with General Alphonse Juin, who succeeded General Weygand as Commander in Chief in French North Africa. Asked if the Madagascar attack increased the possibility of United Nations' action against Dakar, Laval sputtered: "Why ask me? Why not cable Roosevelt...