Word: beg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take this occasion to thank you for the efficacious aid which you have so kindly offered to the work of reconstruction and I beg you to transmit this expression of my thanks to the members of your mission...
...according to Mr. W's deduction, I am a "disloyal citizen and a spy, liable to be placed before a firing squad." This appears to be rather illogical logic; feeling about the manner in which humans are treated is not synonymous with enacting the role of a traitor. I beg to differ...
...personal, dynamic Christianity. I am theologically a liberal and have no sympathy with the emotional piety that often masquerades as religion; but if any idealistic conception of God must be classed as "narrow" and "sectarian," and if any religious purpose must be suavely generalized; a priori, as impractical, I beg leave to register a protest. That sort of stuff is as narrow and dogmatic on the liberal side as the narrowest dogmatisms of the seventeenth century--and much shallower; and what is vastly more important, it does not represent the position of hundreds, perhaps of thousands, of men in this...