Word: entreating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pained, both divisions hastened to entreat General Pershing to apportion the respective glories of the two Divisions, to decide whether or not the 26th's church was just a bit too close to the 2nd's Wood. General Pershing flatly declined to become embroiled...
...wish to entreat the student body to cooperate with the cheerleaders," he said...
...December, 1683," Mr. Lane's article continues, "the Corporation had voted unanimously to entreat the Overseers in order that Commencement in the future be on the first Wednesday in July instead of on the second Tuesday of August which had then long been the customary date. A few days later it was discovered that on the first Wednesday of July (July 2) in 1684 there was to be an eclipse of the sun, whereupon the President, John Rogers, and two of the Fellows, Samuel Andrew and John Cotton, wrote to Increase Matlrer, the most influential member of the board...
...reflection of the American people I hereby entreat by my death His Excellency Cyrus E. Woods, American Ambassador, who well understands Japan and has great sympathy for the Japanese people, to convey my request as follows...
...disappeared from all our minds years and years ago. (Cheers.) . . . And if I may be so bold as to offer a word of advice to you, it would be this: ' Don't encourage any enterprise looking to Canada's annexation of the United States.' ... I entreat you for your own sakes to think twice before undertaking management of the territory which lies between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande." (Laughter...