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Word: asked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After receiving no answer from the comedian all week, Russell will send another communication to NBC this morning. He will repeat hie request for the car and will ask Allen to take personal care of the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Allen Ignores Student's Claim To Ford Lost Because He Listened | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

...unpleasant-methods. At the Menninger clinic, for instance, doctors might prescribe, for a depressed patient, "two weeks of unsolicited love." This means that the patient's doctor and nurses should treat him with the full measure of brotherly love that he needs but does not know how to ask for. Psychiatrists also use music as a soother, and such "occupational therapy" as publishing newspapers, carpentry and jewelry-making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are You Always Worrying? | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...When one was discussing a problem with him, he would repeatedly pick up the telephone, ask to be put through to some departmental chief, and ask him-'How many so and so have we got?' Then he would turn to the man who was arguing with him, quote the number, and say: 'There you are . . .' without asking if the numbers stated were available in reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Defeated | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...specialists at the Medical School, Dr. Bock's statement continues, work for the University part-time only, and have private practices of their own. "We could not ask (them) to give time to this department without salary payments," he declares, "and this could not be done unless fees were charged for their services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bock Turns Down Hygiene Proposals | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...made at Republic Studios (home of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry) but on a budget much smaller than that given to horse operas. Welles could not hire any "name" actors for either their experience or box-office, so he chose his cast from radio actors. They didn't ask large salaries and could give beautiful readings of the poetry. He was allowed only one set, so he chose to accent the primitiveness of the characters by setting Inverness in a hollowed mountain. He was allowed only twenty-one days for actual filming. There was also the handicap of working with...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Orson and Old Luce: Report on Macbeth | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

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