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Word: asked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goal is 100 percent contributing." Betty K. Heaton '51, Community Service head, announced last night. Miss Heaton added that no minimum has been set for individual donations. "We ask only that each girl contribute to the fund," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100% Donation, $3000 Goal Set For Charity Drive | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

Winston Churchill, back from a long vacation, lumbered to his feet with impish gravity: "May I ask, Mr. Speaker, if it is in order for an honorable member to call another a 'dirty dog'? I should like to be authoritatively advised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Here They Come! | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Gruff, honest Bridgman assigned Robert to a project involving a copper-nickel alloy. Oppenheimer built a furnace, made his alloy, completed the study with sufficient precision for Bridgman to publish the findings. Says Bridgman: "A very intelligent student. He knew enough to ask questions." After hours, at the Bridgman home, the conversation ranged far & wide, giving Oppenheimer chances to display his often irritating erudition. Once Bridgman identified a picture as a temple at Segesta, Sicily, built about 400 B.C. Young Oppenheimer quickly set his professor straight: "I judge from the capitals on the columns that it was built about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Franck: "I got out of there just in time. He was beginning to ask me questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Solicitors will ask University students for a $10 Contribution to the Combined Charities Drive in a door to door canvass of the Houses starting tomorrow night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Drive Sets Goal at $10 Per Man | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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