Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Repeal? Betting was that the President would not ask for full repeal of the Neutrality Act, thus permitting isolationists, appeasers, peacemongers and their assorted following to put on another dramatic show. Best guess was that the President would ask simply for permission to arm merchant ships...
...friendships made in their Freshman year because of the difficulty of taking meals in other Houses more than three times a week. The present rule is almost paradoxical, since Harvard is noted for its treatment of undergraduates as rational human beings. Furthermore, a "host" rarely has the effrontery to ask his guest if he is exceeding his outside meal quota, and so frequently gets stuck if he is exceeding his outside meal quota, and so frequently gets stuck with the check. If an unlimited inter-House meal plan were adopted, visiting could logically be curtailed during House dinners and other...
...bang out of plenty of noise, lots of blood and even more thunder, with some excellent aerial photography thrown in then "A Yank in the R. A. F." is almost sure to make you sit up and ask Winston for more. It's as much fun as hissing Hitler in the newsreels...
...consequences which are almost certain to flow from the new orders [to clean out German raiders] given to the Navy are immensely important-so important, I venture to suggest, that we can seriously ask ourselves if it may not now be justifiable and actually desirable to reduce the size of the American Army...
That there would be fairly widespread undergraduate approval of the new requirement is indicated by the number of voluntary theses written for Ec 1 where the course thesis is optional. And when students ask for more work which the faculty unanimously feels they need, the usual Harvard departmental approach of ten years of discussion before ten minutes of action might be slightly accelerated...