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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition read, "We, the undersigned students in Harvard University, ask that the Student Council appoint a committee to report on the non-reappointment of assistant professor Robin D. Feild in particular, and the educational policy of the Fine Arts Department in general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS DEMAND REPORT ON FEILD | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

Budny admitted that the first time he ordered his usual seven glasses of milk in the Kirkland House dining hall everybody was astonished, especially the waitresses. "Now I never have to ask the waitresses; they bring it out for me automatically," he proudly attests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Drinks Milk! | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

...important role. The rest of the cast is subordinated to Miss Lawrence for most of the play, but in the more serious third act Natalie Schafer and Charlotte Marley turn in sound performances. Fast-moving throughout, the play is at once hilarious and thought-provoking. It is 'hard' to ask for more...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

Basic question the U. S. press immediately asked was: had this Democratic President made any commitments comparable to the moral ones assumed by the last Democratic President with regard to "foreign entanglements"? To his full height in the Senate rose young Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson and namesake of one of the men who drove Woodrow Wilson wild on the League of Nations issue, to ask the Secretary of the Treasury for a full accounting of the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, to see if any financial commitments were implied by the President's program. Senator Lodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senators in Distress | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Girls: If your escort gets too drunk and assertive, don't ask him in. "Don't laugh at him when he makes love to you, even though he looks funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Manners | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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