Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung-feeling bad enough -would rather escape pneumonia in the other lung-which he certainly will not do by kicking around and utterly disorganizing himself -destroying any body unity he could build up. A wise patient will swallow the nasty medicine-will ask for nastier medicine-in a chance to spare the other lung...
Whether the Chase will be told whose instructions to honor is another matter. Under the New York Civil Practice Act, a "stakeholder" for property can ask the Court to pick the proper claimant only if it can produce bona fide rival claims. Before the Court will consider the case, the rival claimants may settle privately, or simply decide not to press their claims. All the Chase can do is wait and pray...
...Ask her the color of her gown (even orchids don't go everything...
...hasten to congratulate you on your bold front page article of Harvard's Ku Klux Klan invasion. With all respect to the worthy and essential members of the press, may I ask why the facts have not been brought to the fore at a prior date? Ludicrous, indeed, is the thought that a Washington editor, in the guise of a spectator, must tell the police where to look for the criminal. Can it be that this paper is so dedicated to an impossible program of neutrality, that it hates to publish the intimate truth unless the outside world first backs...
...shall be very much disappointed if our new church turns out to be no more than a building which will house large numbers and accommodate a variety of activities. . . . You may ask why we . . . do not spend the same money in Christian work and arrange to worship in less impressive surroundings. . . . Great buildings dominate and influence the lives of all who live near them. A church which embodies and illustrates the truths of Christianity should be a monument in which the affection and aspiration of many generations of Christians are centred. That is why we choose to spend our money...