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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surely it is not too much to ask that one be permitted to devote his time and energy to his studies without having his efforts vitiated by financial insecurity. Mllton Soldz

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARS AND DOLLARS | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

...should talk sweet of the aged, and of the performance in her current issue, such talk need be neither hypocritical nor gratuitous. If a reader wishes there were a little more of her, he can comfort himself by sensing that she is, at least, there. A fellow can ask little else of a woman, particularly in springtime...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 4/7/1959 | See Source »

...entire year, American should earn upwards of $50 million, and may easily earn as high as $64 million, or about $11 a share, if Romney's confident expectation of 350,000 Rambler sales holds up. Earnings are piling up so fast that Romney is expected to ask the company directors to declare the first cash dividend since 1954, when it was 12½?; this time it looks as if the dividend will be about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Last week Castro said the purpose of his visit was to ask the American government to give Cuba economic assistance and to raise the quota on imports of Cuban sugar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Castro Accepts Invitation to Discuss Cuban Revolution Before Law Forum | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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