Word: asking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...voted to ask the Corporation to permit the use of the artesan well for drinking water. A few weeks ago the use of this water for drinking purposes was forbidden. A motion to increase the salary of the secretary by $50, making it $150, was narrowly defeated...
...usual utterance even among educated people, and especially in the United States, the most abused language in the world. For the last twenty years there has been manifest in the professions and in society a carelessness in speech and in manner of delivery which makes one ask: What is to be the end of this decadence...
...other years two weeks before the election the president then in office shall ask from a committee, of ten appointed by him for the purpose a list of at least two nominations for each office. The class shall then vote on these nominations...
...between control by the President over infractions of State laws and National laws involved in the question ran through all the Harvard speeches. Princeton's contention, used with most telling effect, was a constant insistance that there were many instances of domestic violence when the States had refused to ask for Federal aid. It followed from, this that the President must be vested with the right to intervene when he thinks it necessary. And in conclusion, Princeton contended that the economic conditions of the country, by which violence in one State affected other States, demand interference by the national executive...
...proposed power would be radical in principle. The principle that behind the state stands the union guaranteeing its stability is, he said, as old as the constitution. Moreover, the aim of the constitution is domestic tranquility. Therefore when continued domestic violence exists and a State re- fuses to ask for aid, the very end of the constitution is subverted...