Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight the bank announced that it was ready to expand to the rest of the U.S. It will solicit funds and healthy eyes. (Eyes are given by bequest and arrangements with surviving relatives, or by gift from people who must lose them by surgery.) The money will be used to provide scholarships to doctors all over the U.S. who want to learn the corneal grafting technique, and to establish bank branches wherever they are needed...
...Average Man is now beloved and honored. When he is in uniform, Ernie Pyle and a host of other correspondents watch him, note his casual expressions, solicit his opinions, record his hopes and fears, marvel at his fortitude. When he is in civilian clothes, the public opinion polls eagerly tabulate his beliefs, his prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress...
Said Censor Price: "I solicit continued cooperation to see . . . that a dangerous psychology of overcensorship is not created throughout the land by the activities of a miscellany of volunteer firemen...
...statute book a sweeping "labor-regulating" law (similar to laws of Kansas, Florida, Colorado and Alabama). Most offensive to organized labor and involving the Constitutional issue of free speech is a provision which requires labor organizers to get a permit from the Secretary of State be fore they may solicit union memberships...
Place, formerly manager of the football team, and Health, president of the Student Council and member of the Varsity baseball team, will solicit the sum which each class traditionally gives to Harvard College on the 25th anniversary graduation...