Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee will also seek the answer to the question of why other colleges are getting better food than Harvard. Any person having any complaint about food at the University should make it in writing to John W. Ellison '44, Adams...
...Britain rumor said that the Franco Government's promonarchist Ambassador, the Duke of Alba (TIME, July 5), was touting restoration of the Spanish Bourbons. Reported The Week: Spanish monarchists had decided not to seek to replace Caudillo Franco from within but to work from abroad through influential friends in England...
...Turkey. The feeler is reported to have come directly from Foreign Minister Guariglia. Germany's Papan is busy in Ankara . . . insinuating to anyone willing to listen that if the United Nations try to impose merciless terms upon Italy which might be a precedent against Germany, then Hitler might seek peace with Russia...
Newcomer Bowles took a confident grip on his job. He had no illusions: "No sensible person would seek a job of this kind." He was modest: "Expect no miracles." He was reasonable: "There is no sense in rationing for rationing's sake." He sounded tough enough: "OPA will be no walking door...
...Said Prime Minister Churchill: "It would be a grave mistake . . . for the rescuing powers of Britain and the U.S. so to act as to break down the whole structure and expression of the Italian State. We certainly do not seek to reduce Italian life to a condition of chaos and anarchy, and find ourselves without any authority with whom to deal. . . . [But] we should let the Italians . . . 'stew in their own juice' for a bit and hot up the fire...