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Word: asked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Architect Robert Montgomery Brown, who found that his friends were drinking up $2,400 worth of his liquor a year, decided to ask guests to sign chits for their drinks, receive monthly accounts payable in return drinks. Said Brown: "It equalizes the drinking and discourages guzzlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...middle-aged lady expressed the meaning of Police Day when she approached a U.S. correspondent who was waiting, in his U.S. car, for the light to change at a Prague streetcorner. "You are an American, aren't you?" she asked. "Please ask your government to do something. We suffer so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Police Day | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Villain-ready to do what you ask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vaunts & Vicious | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Council will ask the University to implement the new legislation in four ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Elects Weeks President, Adopts Revised Class Affairs Plan | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

...proposal, as outlined after a unanimous vote by Senator Saltonstall and seven other members in attendance at the meeting, was not in the form of a final recommendation. The Committee, in the terms of its report, merely "agreed that it would ask for an architectural opinion as to whether or not it would be feasible (to complete the proposed elements of the memorial) within...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Saltonstall Committee Proposes New Mem Hall Activities Rooms and Theater, Church Tablet | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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