Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing you at this time to ask your cooperation in a matter of vital national defense, maintaining the high morale of our men in the service. The Solace, the first hospital ship to be added to the U. S. Navy since World War days, has been fitted out as a modern 432 bed hospital, the equal of the most completely equipped hospital of its size on shore. While the Bureau of Navigation has supplied us with as many books as it has been able to do, I think you can appreciate the fact that the men in Sick...
...would appreciate it very much if you could in some way appeal to the patriotism of the student body, and ask them to hand in to you any book or magazine (Popular Science, National Geographic, Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, Colliers, etc.) with which they have finished, and which they would be willing to pass on to some service man who is in Sick Bay. I honestly know of no finer way undergraduates can help at this time than the one I have just mentioned...
...debt limit, set by Congress earlier this year, is only $65,000,000,000. Within the next few months Mr. Morgenthau will have to borrow several more billions. Before another year is out, Mr. Morgenthau will probably have to ask Congress to up the limit again...
...easily done with? What would the German soldiers say who had yet to shed blood to accomplish this supposedly accomplished fact? What of Leningrad? What of Odessa? What of Marshal Budenny's remnants, who would certainly not ask to be captured? What of the thousands of untamed miles and millions of untamed men beyond Moscow? What of the wall of the Urals? What of the Russian Armies beyond the wall...
...face of such transparent manliness, most of Harrow could forgive young Churchill nearly everything. Writes Vicar Edgar Stogdon of Harrow, who was at school with young Churchill: "If your mother wrote to ask if she could come down to see you, you told her what hat to wear, and if her figure was beyond the accepted standard, you suggested postponement. . . . Mr. Winston Churchill invited his old nurse down ... to her intense happiness; she arrived in an old poke bonnet, her figure had attained ample proportions, and Mr. Churchill walked arm-in-arm with her in the street! It is about...