Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...legalize the playing of the game by soldiers and sailors who may enjoy turning to this healthy pastime during the odd hours on the Sabbath. The natural wisdom of providing these men with any and all sensibly planned opportunities for recreation, it is to be hoped will so appeal to the General Court that the legislature will not only admit the petition, upon the recommendation given by the Committee on Rules, but also press it to passage...
...comparatively easy to send out a patriotic appeal for workmen to enter the shipbuilding industry on the basis of the supreme need for ships in our present war crisis. The matter of selecting those who offer their services is a very much more difficult question...
There is no doubt that the "gluttons for work," as aforesaid, will be found. The advantages of getting a full "Tech" course in three years or less will appeal to many boys willing to test their mettle in such a scheme. It will not only help them, but will hasten the country's needed supply of Technology trained men. --Boston Post...
...Navy is at present in urgent need of binoculars, spy-glasses and telescopes for use against submarines. Heretofore the United States has been obliged to rely almost entirely upon foreign countries for its supply of such articles. These channels are now closed, and it has become necessary to appeal to the patriotism of private owners to furnish "eyes for the Navy...
...appeal to the men of our colleges and universities to throw their energies into the winning of this war--which we are pledged to wage till "justice and mercy" prevail among the nations of the earth--would savor of the gratuitous. From our colleges and universities have gone forth thousands--thousands of our best, physically and mentally. Our student ranks throughout the country are riddled...