Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. refused the request of twelve-year-old Calvin Kuiper of Sheboygan, Wis. for "a few gold bars" to melt up for toy soldiers...
...Radcliffe girl was composing a lengthy message to the home folks with much pencil-biting and puckering of brow. We didn't go so far as to peck over her shoulder but it was evident that it was an urgent request of some kind and she was afraid the demand was couched in too dictatorial terms. Some mollifying touch was necessary to close...
...heavy 15-ft. walls, is accessible only by means of a drawbridge to an adjacent building. Within it are live cattle, fresh wells, well-stocked larders. At week's end, armed monks patrolled the walls while police, dispatched by the Governor of Assiut at the Patriarch's request, pondered the ultimatum that any attempt to storm the monastery would be met with deluges of boiling water...
...also reliably reported that Harlow may change the starting times of spring practice from 4 o'clock to 3 o'clock. This is being done at the request of the players who will now finish practice at 4:30 instead of 5:30 o'clock...