Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ask what my experience on the CRIMSON has meant to me. Being a writer and occasional public to me. Being a writer and occasional public speaker, I look upon my course with Bliss Perry and my apprenticeship on the CRIMSON as the source from which I first acquired the tools of my trade...
Professor Baker declined the position despite an offer from the University to pay him for working here over weekends. Federal lawyers decided that it was illegal for a CAB member to held another job, and it seemed unlikely that President Truman would ask Congress to rule an exception in this case...
...shall receive music royalties -ignoring the musician and recording firm, the artificers who put the music into salable form. If a disc jockey and a radio station collect revenue from the commercial use of the product, why not the men who made it? Petrillo was not the first to ask this question, but he was a man with a lever to pry out an answer...
Another Briton felt that nationalization entitled her to ask a favor of the engineer on the 6:20 from Hastings to Ashford. "Would you be so good as to hoot as you go over the iron bridge just out of Rye station," she wrote,"to get my husband up for work? We cannot buy an alarm clock...
...Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Niels D. Bohr (who has been there once before), British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (who presumably will work on the last volumes of A Study of History) and Poet T. S. Eliot (St. Louis-born, but a British subject since 1927). The institute didn't ask them what they would do; it was satisfied to let grown-up minds continue growing...