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Word: beg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the chief objection which has been raised against the Dance, from certain quarters at least, is in regard to social considerations. It is said that the constituency of the Junior Prom is not representative of the Harvard undergraduate body. I beg to take issue with this statement. Out of necessity I attended the Dance last year, and am convinced that the proportion of various social groups at the function is in general the same as that between the same groups in the greater body of the College. Unfortunately, however, with the reduced numbers, the total of the undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Stoops to Conquer | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

...haven't we had some news as to when and by whom the challenges being flung out by the Tobacco Interests will be taken up? Camels started the game by suggestively placing pretty women in their ads, Chesterfields followed by having their lady beg to have some blown her way; and now Old Golds show their lady as actually smoking. But Lucky Strikes win the prize in this race for new customers, by making a direct appeal to the more youthful men and women with their "Reach for a Lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...beg to take issue with you on the recent denunciation in your columns of degree language requirements. May these indispensible accountrements of our college curricula forever remain aloof to scurrilous attacks of "Crime" editors. Possibly you would rejoice if you could eliminate everything connected with cerebral activity from college life. Serlously, your intellectual status is gravely questioned after the inane castigation in Thursday's edition on a revered feature of the Harvard educational ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Can't Give You Anything But Love | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

...beg to acknowledge receipt of yours of July 23rd. ... "In view of your conviction that your duty as chairman of the National Democratic Committee will monopolize your time . . . and on account of the importance to the corporation as well as to yourself of making it unmistakably clear that the corporation takes no part in political affairs, we are constrained to accept your request to be relieved of all your duties in connection with the corporation. . . . "Sincerely yours, "Alfred P. Sloan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Another Alfred | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...form, the letter said: Buddhism in Tibet, its ancient stronghold, has become a depraved Shamanistic religion. The celebrated Tashi Lumpo monastery, residence of the abdicated Tashi Lama, has been deserted and desecrated. Lamas, teachers of the people, tell fortunes for alms, by the haunches of mutton, or dice; they beg and cheat; to mystify the ignorant, they mutter squeaky conjurations or play with human bones. The forest-dwelling Buddhists revere arrows and absurd amulets. Conscious reverence for Buddha is held by very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bad Buddhists | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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