Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest sources of annoyance to the Hygiene Department seems to be the large number of students who call up from their rooms, say that they feel too sick to go down to 15 Holyoke St., and ask for a doctor to come around to see them...
...that the new Garand was better than the earlier model. Redesigned barrels and sights had increased its accuracy and ruggedness. Still a tough rifle to produce, the Garand was coming out of the Army's Springfield Arsenal at a 560-per-day clip. All that doubting Thomases could ask further last week was proof that the new Garand can stand up under combat firing. What, if anything, the Marine Corps testing board had to say on this important subject was a closely held secret. The Corps and the War Department merely announced that the Garand had been adopted...
Most U. S. newspapermen have stopped asking each other: Will there or will there not be a press censorship? Instead they ask: What kind of censorship will there be? To this question the main corollaries are still well on the side of confusion, exasperation and no little uneasiness (TIME, Feb. 17). Last week the censorship problem took a new dramatic turn...
Eleanor Roosevelt likes to ask young musicians to perform at the White House, and young musicians naturally like to be asked. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt put on "An Evening of Songs for American Soldiers." Six of the black and white performers were from a radio program: CBS's thrice-a-week Back Where I Come From, a sustainer devoted to U. S. folk songs. Among the White House guests: the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury & wives, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Commandants of Marine Corps and Coast Guard, Mr. Knudsenhillman & wives, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish...
...wilderness of dormitories lies the heart of Harvard, the Yard. Though trailblazer Daniel Boone might have been able to find his way in and out of this architectural forest, a city-bred Freshman picking his way between the forbidding Grays and the frowning Matthews, perhaps too shy to ask directions, finds the feat a tough one. For him the Yard is a bewildering maze. Many of the buildings have no nameplates...