Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time of the academic year, Harvard students are being asked to contribute money to a drive. This is an extraordinary request in view of the fact that the Student Council conducted its fall drive with the understanding that it would be the only charity campaign to be undertaken during the year. This request is fully warranted by the extraordinary conditions. There is no need to recite a series of melodramatic statistics. When a university president writes that "in practise, we chiefly need a second meal daily, even if it were no more than soup," the existence of extraordinary conditions...
...machine was invented by Har old F. Silver of Denver, a designer for the sugar-beet industry. He tackled the problem shortly before the war at the request of a Colorado coal company, perfected his mining machine in 1947, then sold the patents to Pittsburgh's Joy Manufacturing Co. Joy, leading mine-machinery maker in the U.S., added the results of its own research to Silver's design, and began tests in the lignite fields of Colorado last year. But the tests at the Pittsburgh Consolidation mine in Daisytown, Pa. were the first in a regular coal mine...
...latter campaign for in infancy, however, when Vandenberg telegraphed a negative reply to Schwebel's request to form a National Student league in support of the Michigan Senator's nomination. "I must emphatically request you not to proceed with the organization contemplated," his message road in part, "I am very sure I can best serve my country by completing my present tour of duty in the Senate...
...equipment. He moved to the Treasury in 1938, became its general counsel in 1944, but quit last year "to provide for the financial security" of his wife and two daughters. He changed his mind about Government work, which he enjoys, because "I was flattered by the President's request and couldn't find any good reason for saying...
...skill consists in parrying the 'line' without discouraging her partner or becoming emotionally involved herself. To the extent that she falls for the 'line' she is a loser in this intricate game; but if she discourages her partner so much that he does not request a subsequent 'date' in the near future she is equally a loser. To remain the winner, she must make the nicest discriminations between yielding and rigidity...