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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everybody is agreed also on the broad outlines of what has to be done. All three bills ask for more doctors, more and better hospitals, and an extensive research program. The dynamite in the President's proposal lies in how he intends to make health services available to more people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Health | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...Joseph Goldstein and others who consider The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic [TIME, April 4], I would suggest they . . . reread the play with the open-mindedness they ask of others. Viewed from the 20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Once upon a time there was a very good radio show. It had a sponsor. He was satisfied with the whole affiair and everyone lived happily ever after. This little tale is completely apocryphal. If you don't believe me ask a radio comedian name Henry Morgan. He'll tell...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Beta Kappa is going into the advising business. Freshmen still feeling their way indecisively around the field of concentration maze will be able to ask questions of Harvard's top scholars for three nights next week, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK to Give Advice to '52 On Majoring | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

They run to considerable length, neatly panned out in slanting German script; most of them simply describe everyday life--"very ordinary"--and ask questions about America and its people. Many call for student exchanges to enable the countries to "vanish international misunderstanding." And nearly all constantly thank the students who they claim are doing so much "to show us the need to democracy...

Author: By Paul. W. Mandel, | Title: German Letters Gripe to Students about War Trials, Russians, Government, Music | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

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