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Word: requesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee from New Jersey's Charles A. Eaton. New York's tight-fisted John Taber will relinquish the Appropriations Committee purse strings to Missouri's Clarence Cannon, 69, who looks like a professional mourner and is always willing to give a sympathetic ear to an Administration request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Jobs, Old Faces | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Although passing on a tried & true recipe is an old American custom, we were not prepared for the enthusiasm evoked by our request or for the discussions of home problems and the philosophizing about cooking that accompanied many of the recipes. One reader, in submitting a casserole called Baked Macedoine wrote that its U.S. ingredients were hardly as exciting as those she had been used to in Alaska where "I cooked many wonderful meals of moose, caribou, wild sheep and goat, halibut and salmon fresh from the ocean, grayling and trout from the clear, cold rivers. Bear has even been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Exasperated Man. The.first letter in the book is a cool request to the governor of Virginia (written when Poe was 15) asking that the Richmond Junior Volunteers, in which he was a lieutenant, be allowed to keep their arms. It sets the tone for the book. Poe's letters were brisk and businesslike-requests for books to review, offers to sell stories, proposals to start new literary magazines, attempts to wangle copy from contributors like Longfellow, Hawthorne, or James Russell Lowell. When Poe became editor of Graham's Magazine it had 5,000 subscribers. When he left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short, Unhappy Life | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Nine thousand of the 11,000 tickets allotted to Harvard were sold here, while the surplus was returned to Princeton last week at the request of the Princeton Athletic Association, which needed them to fill local demands. Tickets turned in here this week will also be sent back to New Jersey, where they will go on sale before game time. A near capacity crowd is expected at the stadium, which holds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 500 Drop Out of Tigertown Trek, Sell Back Tickets | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...sure the student body (with and without medical training) should know about their splendid Hygiene Department and my good fortune. Name Withheld by Request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prefrontal Lobotomy | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

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