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Word: petitioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Dean spoke again of the College and how there would always be a place for Vag in the local scene. The Dean suggested Vag fill out a petition, but warned him in the same breath that it would be useless. He again mentioned tradition.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

David Drake '52 held a meeting in his room last night to get signatures on a petition favoring the owl. The petition asks the Student Council to give official approval to the presence of the owl in the Yard, in view of the interest and attraction caused by the owl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asks Owl Sanction; Murder Plot Falls Through | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

Drake plans no permanent club to protect the owl; his Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the Owl will last only until he obtains at least 100 names for his petition. The five-man society sent a letter of approval to Ludlow Griscom, Research Curator of Zoology, thanking him...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asks Owl Sanction; Murder Plot Falls Through | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

Their immediate goal in the fight against the draft, according to YPH president Jerry Gordon, is to enlist the leaders of undergraduate and graduate organizations as active members of a United Anti-Draft Committee, and to collect as many signatures as possible on a petition to be sent to President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YPH Asks Broad Support for New Anti-Draft Group | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

The Faithful Persevere. A few years later, a Benedictine monk named Luigi Vaccari organized a popular movement, still continuing, to bring pressure on the Pope. Dom Luigi persuaded a layman to travel the world collecting signatures to a petition. Some 25,000 signatures came from Mexico alone. The Holy Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Assumption of Mary | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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