Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have the same functions you had before; you may sit in the same offices, direct the same staffs, do the same work and remain the same people-but you're in a new organization. . . . Now we have the authority, all the authority any man could ask for. We have smoothed out the organizational kinks. The rest is up to us. Any failure from now on is a failure...
...subject was appetizing and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg made the most of it. Did his fellow Senators know, he inquired, that the U.S. Army was going to ask for bids on 1,000 rubber cuspidor mats-which would use up a ton and a half of badly needed rubber? Well, sir, he'd learned precisely that from one of his constituents. His adviser had proposed that "a little drilling of the officers in straight spitting might be a good suggestion...
...specifying how Providence has failed to conform with the provisions of the will the University's attorneys will ask the United States District Court to declare that "this property is now vested in Harvard University...
...ask of the Almighty that He give to the German people and to its soldiers the strength to resist with valiant hearts for the maintenance of our liberties and our future. . . . The year 1942-and we pray to God, all of us, that it may-should bring the decision which will save our people and with them our allied nations...
...calling attention to these opportunities in physics the department has no thought of providing an easy form of war service. We believe that our country is in great danger. Work done in this department will be strenuous and exacting. We shall ask nothing impossible of our students and be believe that with the aid of a little more mathematics and more individual instruction many students now floundering in elementary physics courses can be helped to a real mastery of the subject. Nevertheless, students who are not ready to tackle a hard and difficult job with enthusiasm had better seek some...