Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issued an appeal, got newspapers to accept contributions for Finnish relief, telephoned an address to a mass meeting in Manhattan. He wrote: "America has a duty to do its part in the relief of the hideous suffering of the Finnish people. Our people should have an outlet in which to express their individual and practical sympathy...
Professor Buros' harrowing adventures began even before he had got his book to press. Most tests are marketed by commercial publishers, yield handsome profits to publishers and authors. When they had seen pre-publication copies of his book, some publishers began to appeal to Mr. Buros "in the name of common decency" to stop the presses. A distraught publisher: "Now, Oscar! Is this sporting? . . . During my four years of service in the United States Marine Corps and later during my service . . . with the A. E. F., it never occurred to me that I would ever be called upon...
Contents were snob-appeal who-was-seen-with-whom-where-when articles and pictures, fashion gossip, etc., and a calendar listing events in Eastern cities...
...final resolution also included a condemnation of attempts to drag the United States into war, implemented by a second proposal specifying allegedly Unneutral acts. The anti-aggression stand was put forth by Jack M. Perlman '40 along with an appeal for neutrality. The added clause on unneutral acts was sponsored by Paul Olum '40, vice-president of the Union...
...this work, he will be solely and exclusively a student, he insists, giving advice only where advice is sought, and concerned primarily with discovering how the great popular appeal of radio broadcasting can be spread into the educational realm...