Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a lengthy meeting, the National Speech Association group refused to after the topic. The appeal for free debate was also bolstered by a special Edward R. Marrow "See it Now" television program. Harvard and Princeton debating teams both sent special messages to the Academies and to the President asking for removal of the restrictions...
...first heard of Miss Helen Keller when I was 15 years old and only a freshman. One of my best professors called our attention to Miss Sullivan's book about her and what he said, in a ffew words, made such an appeal to my boyish imagination that I lost little time in securing the book and reading it. Sometime later the story of her life appeared in the "Ladies Home Journal" and the wife on an American professor kindly lent it to me. I was so interested that I spoke about this most remarkable personality before the Greek Y.M.C.A...
Nevertheless, after three hours of deliberation, the jury decided that the word "cowardly" was too strong to describe Nova's performance against Louis, awarded Nova $35,000 in damages. As Flaherty and the Hearst lawyers prepared an appeal, sportswriters shuddered at the dampening effect the decision might have on their own prose. For his own part, Lou Nova had seldom received such bad press notices as he did in this rare moment of real victory. Not a single U.S. daily or wire service reported a word about the trial or Nova's victory in court...
...Greek. But its smiling features, looking out on a benevolent world with a typically Etruscan expression, are alien both to Roman sternness and Greek idealized classicism. More than anything else, it was this carefree attitude toward life as well as death that gave the Etruscan works their unexpected appeal. Rather than visiting a dead civilization, visitors to the show felt that they were meeting a people not unlike modern Italians: gifted, active, and deeply interested in the world around them...
...attorney general has clearly disqualified himself by stating that he is not opposed to this suit." But the court quickly squashed the sculptors' hopes. "What's wrong with that?" the judge asked. His decision: the sculptors had no case. Artists Equity announced that the sculptors would appeal but the Art Institute's Director, Daniel Rich, moved confidently ahead. "We want to build a building," he explained, "a monumental building with bronze sashes and doors, which will be in memory of Benjamin Ferguson...