Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting On. In San Antonio, Marcello Martinez, 118, visited the State Department of Public Welfare to ask whether he was eligible to receive an old-age pension...
...being wise. Said one of his Minneapolis lieutenants: "The trouble with Humphrey is he never takes time out. He's never alone with himself. If the guy would only sit down with himself and say, 'What am I all about?' But he's afraid to ask himself that question...
Finally 50 parents marched into a school-board meeting to ask about punishment and other grievances. The board read the minutes and adjourned, told parents to "submit all complaints in writing ten days before a meeting...
...that which Niebuhr has raised . . . To put it quite simply, it was the different attitude to the Bible, from which we each take our start . . . I was struck by finding in our Anglo-Saxon friends a remarkable [tendency] . . . to theologise on their own account, that is to say, without asking on what biblical grounds one put forward this or that professedly 'Christian' view. They would quote the Bible according to choice . . . according as it appeared to them to strengthen their own view, and without feeling any need to ask whether the words quoted really have in their context...
President Truman's budget message today will bring more news. Truman is expected to ask $13 billion for national defense of which about $5 billion will go to the Army. Defense headquarters has announced that it can support only 677,000 officers and men on this budget...