Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After arguing for two hours on how to grant Dean Bender's request for "solid evidence" on dining hall troubles, the Council settled on a specific poll to find out exactly which foods students like and dislike...
Pound is now working at the request of the Nanking government on a plan to reorganize the Chinese legal system...
...slow and small. Some 200 years ago, a monk wrote to Pope Clement XIII begging him to define the bodily Assumption of Mary as "a most certain dogma of faith." Clement passed the matter on to the Holy Office. In 1863, Spain's Queen Elizabeth made the same request. Pius IX, though recognizing the Queen's good intentions, was somewhat annoyed at a temporal sovereign's interference in sacred matters. He replied: "I am not worthy to publish such a dogma. The wishes of Your Majesty, the holy wishes of Your Majesty, will no doubt some...
Probably the most unusual request we ever received-and a proof of TIME'S toughness-came from a group of Trinity preparatory school boys in New York City. They didn't want to reprint anything; they wanted 50 copies of TIME for their weekend soccer game. It seems that there was a shin guard shortage in town, and a sporting goods salesman had advised them to substitute magazines for the time being. They tried all shapes & sizes of them and found that TIME was just right for their purpose. They managed to rustle up enough copies for their...
Originally, the University delegation was just the "regional stimulator" of the project, Goodloe explained, but at the request of NSA vice-president Rob West the group agreed to take over the national project...