Word: requested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel myself in the desperate position of one who, having just presented a long, painstaking, carefully worked out harangue on a subject dear to his heart, is confronted with the request: 'Will you now give us seventy-five words on what you've just said?' " ¶ Georgia O'Keeffe spent only sev en well-chosen words in describing her latest painting - a starkly splen did, semi-abstract rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge (see cut) : "This is the Brooklyn Bridge...
...vote last week the school group refused the Forum's request on a motion introduced by Mayor Michael J. Neville, who characterized Laski as "pro-Communist, anti-Catholic, and anti-religious." The Mayor stated that he was against using public school halls for speeches by "men with Laski's philosophy of government...
...bill giving President Truman broad powers to revamp the government, but making it easier for Congress to nullify his reorganization plans, was approved yesterday by a Senate Committee. Truman had asked reorganization powers and his request was supported by former president Herbert Hoover whose commission on reorganization submitted its last report yesterday...
Reynolds passed no opinion on the set of proposals but termed it a "striking" analysis and agreed with Bender and Perkins that it was well-phrased and worthy of attention. He passed it on to Andrew S. Seiler, the Boston caterer who is investigating the food problem at the request of Reynolds...
...House Committees are successful in their current "adoption" drives, there will be sevenless displaced persons of college age in European camps by next September. The request for funds to cover the DPs' room, board, and expenses isn't just another charity solicitation. It is a unique project: those who contribute will be bringing fellow-students to Harvard and fellow-human beings to America--from a part of the world where the opportunities for study and decent living have been sparse, to put it mildly...