Word: begging
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conclusion, we beg to ask Mr. Fleming in what school of culture he learned the ennobling principle that, "When a man fights, he should fight with two fists, not with bad names." ALLEN H. GLEASON...
...demands economies of all kinds and that of time is not the least among them. Very few of us have reached a point where we no longer are able to add to our daily routine. The man who in truth fully occupies his time is a rarity indeed. To beg off from added duties because of the war and its demands is in almost every case a popular but invalid excuse. The cry of lack of time comes quickly to the lips, but it does not bear up under the conditions which govern the lives of the great majority...
...have just received a copy of your edition of February 13 in which you have a special dispatch from New Haven in regard to the Yale Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Permit me to call your attention to one or two corrections which I beg you to give publicity in order to correct what will be a very false impression...
Humbly we beg to submit that the times have somewhat changed. The sturdy farmer so longer defends his one man castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well...
...beg to hope that this editorial is only the first of a series waging a campaign for the new education in schools and colleges. We eagerly look forward for instance to a damnation of higher mathematics. It is such a useless study. What chance will a Wall Street clerk ever have of applying his calculus to his life-work? And then, too, you know it is so dreadfully difficult. Men sometimes spend thirty consecutive minutes pondering over a lot of mysterious signs and symbols--really, it is pitiful...