Word: asking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...approximate 30% rise in cases (of diphtheria) last year." TIME got its figures from the United States Public Health Service; the ad's figure erred only in being very conservative. But the fact remained that readers had to read the Medicine story and the advertisement in order to ask us about the discrepancy...
Sometimes the juxtaposition of advertising and editorial material causes you to ask: "Did you plan it that way?" The question was raised recently by a number of readers when a picture of the 30th Anniversary Parade in Moscow (showing huge blown-up portraits of Russian leaders being carried above the marchers' heads) appeared opposite a full-page ad built around a picture of the big gasbag figures in Macy's famous Thanksgiving Day parade. We didn't, of course, plan it that...
...stabilized"? He was not talking about what was politically expedient or even politically practical, but what he thought ought to be done. "We must stop inflation not to save Europe but to save America," he said. He offered this yardstick to measure any anti-inflation plan: "Let the public ask-whom does it hit? If it hits everyone, more than likely it will be a good program. If it taps here and there, touching one segment while exempting others, it will be a bad program...
...musical bans at once-old bans against television and frequency modulation radio stations (which were not allowed to share standard broadcasts of music), and a brand new and bigger ban against the record and transcription business. He had gone to Washington to let the House Education and Labor Committee ask him why he had done it. He beamed happily, thumbs in suspenders (see cut), over having beaten the rap in a Chicago federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing him to trial for making radio stations...
Presumably with a straight face, they offer, among others, such moral gems as "Don't cram before exams;" "Freshmen, play upon to the sophomore and upperclassmen. . . .ask for advice;" "Don't chew gum insistently" (sic); "Don't bring midget radios to the classroom;" "Don't be bashful about reciting;" "Don't change roommates every week--adjust yourself;" "Leave the bathroom as you ground...