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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deaf-mutes" is unfortunately worded. I suppose you mean they are hopelessly deaf. But, you may be sure they are not hopeless and few are mute. The "deaf," meaning those who have been profoundly deaf from an early age, constitute the most admirable group I know of. They ask no favors, earn their own way, and probably live happier and more useful lives than most of their hearing brothers. E. B. BOATNER Superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Detective Lippmann to brooding on the mystery was a Washington rumor that after Christmas President Roosevelt will declare his intention about a third term. Arousing Amateur Lippmann's well-bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem for the political sleuths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: The Deductive Method | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...with an hour's work in the spacious garden at the back of the Palace. Nowadays, once a week the Queen receives her Ministers, and woe be to him who does not know his subject well. The Queen has been so long at her job that she can ask the most difficult questions; when a Minister cannot answer them he is told to study up and sent home. In what spare time Her Majesty permits herself she paints landscapes and cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...bookie's stooge had come around to their door a few days ago, offered them 6 1/2 to 5 on Yale, and had quickly received bets on the Alma Mater by every one present. Winners were to go downtown to the "Old Coffee House" after the game, ask for "Yorkie," and collect their money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS KIDNAP BOOKIE'S HENCHMAN, GET BACK $250 | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...Germans who has been having a pretty good time for the last few years-says that we have been spared so far because Nazi Germany is so humane. . . . When we remember the bestial atrocities they have committed in Poland, we do not feel we wish to ask for any favors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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