Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schoolboy knows that we can tear down even a great city like Chicago in one short year through discrimination in freight rates. Give me control of freight rates and I will have the bats flying through any manufacturing establishment in America in less than one short year. All we ask in the West is what is guaranteed under the Constitution, the same rights and the same privileges that this Government is giving to the states east of Chicago. That is all we are fighting...
...understand that the bill would not be heard in that form. Mr. Dempsey retorted that it would be heard thus or not at all. Both visited the President, who was preserving strict neutrality in the controversy. Mr. Dempsey threatened to withhold his entire appropriations bill, but finally consented to ask only the cost ($500,000) of a Federal survey in New York...
...CRIMSON reporter then ventured to ask if Walt Whitman at least did not possess some of the robust masculine qualities which are attributed to him. "As in Sandburg, these qualities exist in Whitman's words only," Mr. Hillyer replied. "The sentimental note of his early stories was the underlying one in all of his works, even after he had picked up that trick of bold, virile lenguage which made him famous...
Many people looking for men as tutors require some one with experience, and while it is begging the question to ask where a man is to get his experience, it has been frequently noticed that all of the men each year who have had experience are generally taken up before very many inexperienced men have any opportunity of getting work...
...reasons why each man registering for summer employment was asked to specify several different kinds of jobs was that it was expected that a great many men would ask primarily for jobs as tutors or tutor companions. It is probable that more than 60 percent of the men who are registered for summer work have asked for consideration on this type of work...