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Word: request (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speakers Committee supplies Speakers for all possible types and sizes of audiences. Women's clubs, Rotary Clubs, church and school groups request speakers on subjects varying from current events to discussion of the niceties of butterfly collecting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phillips Brooks House Begins Its 38th Year of Active Service | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withhold. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

...prosecuted to full extent of law on return to United States. If they still refuse, place ringleaders in irons. If other crew members still refuse duty, have them removed from ship and replace them with American, if available, and if not, foreign seamen. In case you experience any difficulty, request assistance local authorities. Report developments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Unthinkable, Intolerable | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...used the expression "I was thinking" at a meeting, whereupon a woman said: "Rufus, thy testimony was interesting, but thee does wrong to think in meeting." Once, also, he was mountain-climbing with a member of the Rowntree family and two guides, and complied with the guides' request to pass a liquor bottle from one to the other. At this Climber Rowntree stuck his Alpine stock into the snow, intoned a quotation from the Friends Book of Discipline: "Are Friends careful to avoid the use of liquors and the passing of them to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends in Philadelphia | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...Said he, "Your Honor, it gives me great pleasure to avail myself of Section 170.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure. . . ." Thus he asked that the case be transferred to another judge. The momentary silence in the courtroom was acute. The judge was slightly abashed. While conversation buzzed the request was referred to Presiding Judge C. Julian Goodell who transferred the case, assigned it to another judge for trial this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: First Challenge | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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