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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have read that as a result of balloting last November the liberal forces in the United States are on their way to the cemetery-yet I ask you to remember that liberal forces in the United States have often been killed and buried-with the inevitable result that in short order they have come to life again with more strength then they had before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Whale on Trout Hook | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Department prepared to ask Congress for funds to double the six military attaches it now has advising and proselyting at its embassies and legations below the Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Caribbean Moon | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...information blanks ask for details as to the state, registration number, and make and type of the car, and name and address of owner and operator. Data regarding Massachusetts cars are already available to the police through the Registry of Motor Vehicles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS STUDENTS ABOUT CARS | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

...question is how to find a refuge for a tormented minority, or that even this problem can be solved by removing a half million Jews from the Reich. If any one doubts that this is not the problem let him look to Poland, where the Poles are beginning to ask whether the great powers are going to assist Hitler by caring for his victims while they fail to provide an outlet for the surplus population of a nation that does not resort to such violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: We Are Wanderers | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

First thing Rube did was to ask the Sun for hints on editorial policy. He was given a list of orthodox Republican likes and dislikes, touched up with a heavily jocular postcript: "Dear Rube: We also in theory favor truth and beauty and oppose rape and cannibalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rube in the Sun | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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