Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks as if General Douglas MacArthur has been booby-trapped," Leech mourned in an editorial. "For it is unbelievable that he deliberately would have sought the endorsement which . . . Hearst suddenly dropped down on him. . . . He's too smart to ask for a political kiss of death. . . . Some weird things have happened already in the campaign . . . but nobody else has suffered so extreme an embarrassment as that of becoming 'the Hearst candidate...
...newspaperman Brant has plunged into source materials that professional historians have so far made little use of. His richest pickings were longhand copies of French diplomatic correspondence in the Library of Congress. To read them, Brant had to brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history...
Letters of recommendation in general and character references in particular are usually meaningless, and when an undergraduate has to ask an overworked professor, to whom he is scarcely known by name, for a letter of recommendation, the matter reaches a point of absurdity. Of course, the undergraduate can approach the problem more conscientiously and go to some section man he had two years before, or to his adviser or tutor. In most cases, however, if the instructor is still at Harvard, he has to refer to the student's official transcript, which the graduate school will have in any case...
...this issue, Signature's earnest editors treat the problems of "What is Wrong of Right with College Writing?" by printing two articles of advice to young literary people. Mrs. Jano Pierce, Travel Editor for Glamour Magazine, tells her readers, "Ask Yourself which magazine would seem to be most receptive to your idea--then try to fit it as nearly as possible to the pattern of that magazine . . . Of course if you're a genius, you won't have to worry about those rejection slips anyway." The managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement...
...says Dr. Niebuhr, has always been his own greatest problem child-the creature who continually asks: "What am I?" Sometimes he puts the question modestly: "Am I a child of nature who should not pretend to be different from the other brutes?" But if man asks this question sincerely, he quickly realizes that, were he like the other brutes, he would not ask the question...