Word: asks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...these circumstances, continued Dr. Curtius, the time may come when the German Government may reluctantly ask for a moratorium (postponement) of that portion (about two-thirds) of the payments scheduled under the Young Plan, known as the "postponable portion...
...time on outside stories. Favorite fields of work in this line include "human interest" stories, such as statistics, interviews, stories from rare sources, or almost any information of interest to undergraduates. During the whole competition the candidates are under the close direction of editors, and are perfectly free to ask for information about doing their work...
...that Tuesday morning ... I found myself fairly shoved into the coat department by the determination of a large group of women. Their entry was so forcible that I saw several racks of coats knocked over and one of the smaller clerks was also knocked down. They immediately began to ask for the $58.75 coats at $8.94. Clerks pointed to signs explaining the mistake, but the women, particularly the group which had shoved me in, refused to accept any explanation. Their leader even went so far as to mount a chair and begin a speech using such expressions...
...grumble, only partly mollified by the knowledge that out of the huge gate receipts of football their colleges get funds to support other forms of athletics. The track team gets its carfare, the crew its costly shells out of the coffers filled by great Football. Recently Yale men were asking in their alumni weekly that football be restored to normal. Last week the alumni committee on athletics at the University of Pennsylvania charged in its annual report that college football has become "a contest between professional coaches and their systems," that it shows signs of becoming a "racket." Meanwhile...
Profiler Busch explains his method: "Usually I get some friend of the proposed subject to tell a few stories. Then I get some enemy of my subject to do the same . . . then I ask [the subject] a list of routine questions that would draw the truth out of a stone. When that is over I ask . . . the story of his life. While he is telling it I take...