Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first place, the Council president had evidently neglected to ask his associates what they thought of the recommendations of the subcommittee on food, for during the meeting, only two Council members seemed to know what those proposals contained. Consequently, the meeting was barely under way when Councilmen began arguing among themselves, presenting motions and counter-motions, until they has bumbled away 35 minutes of radio time...
...began its concert in Sanders Theater Tuesday night with C. P. E. Bach's Concerto in D Major for Strings. This is one of the many Thoroughbass pieces that Koussevitsky has had orchestrated, and it is never a surprise to find one starting a concert. But you might well ask why it was put on this program; it was no preparation for Irving Fine's new Toccata Concentrate which followed...
...naivete rather than out of dishonesty. If, as the case seems to be, he was trying to recruit Negroes for the YRC at Registration by using a line involving Lincoln and the freeing of the Slaves, it was hardly discrimination on the part of the YRC to ask him not to continue his act. At least two of Fisher's other points cannot be gotten past so easily, however...
Heath's arrangement is to take each slobbering tot onto his knee, ask it what it wants for a present, listen enraptured to its answer, mutter something about "seeing to it", ask the attendant mother if the little dear has been a good child during the year, and finally give it a funny book. Unfortunately the funny books ran out long ago, so all Heath can offer is a cheery laugh and a pat on the back...
Ballots, available at both lunch and dinner, will ask whether all college students, or any specific categories of students, should receive deferments. The poll will also find out what percent of Harvard students are entitled to deferment as reserve or guard members...