Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informed of its actions" by (1) releasing annual reports, including complete and detailed financial reports, to recognized undergraduate publications and by posting these reports on all official bulletin boards, and (2) "by releasing to recognized undergraduate publications reports of every meeting and making available the minutes to anyone upon request...
Organized by reporters on every governmental beat, they police the release of news. Often, at the request of a Government official, a club tells newspapers what not to print. Those who disobey are suspended, i.e., get no more news. The Finance Ministry, which controls the Government tobacco monopoly, keeps its club members well stocked with rationed cigarets. Members of the Transportation Ministry Reporters' Club get free train passes. Other offices hand out tinned food, shoes, uniforms, etc. to club members...
...policy of the Crimson to print only letters which are signed. Names will be withheld from publication upon request, but must appear on all letters before such letters can be considered for publication. In all but exceptional cases, the Crimson reserves the right to cut all letters of more than three hundred words...
There was the otherwise normal upperclassman who approached Palmer one morning to request aid in composing an overdue poem. There was the outsider who, after announcing his peculiar powers of water-witching, inquired if Widener might have some books on the subject...
With this breakdown the morgue's 16 research librarians, each of whom is a specialist in a specific field (Foreign News, National Affairs, etc.), can fill a TIME writer's request for background material, or check a fact, in a hurry. They get about 5,000 requests a month. For a recent issue of TIME they were asked to determine (among other things): the wage rates of natives in the Solomon Islands; the form of poetry most similar to the rhumba rhythm; major U.S. cities controlled by Republican mayors; the number of U.S. synthetic rubber plants that have...