Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blind Spot." Explorer MacMillan's plea for this assistance was indeed persuasive. In return for two airplanes, he would try to give the U. S. a new continent. North of Alaska and Siberia, from about 120° West Longitude to about 120° East Longitude, and from the 77th parallel to the North Pole, lies a vast region never explored by man, a "blind spot" on the most modern of maps. In 1906, three years before he reached the Pole, Admiral Peary stood on a cape of Ellesmere Land, looked northwest, swore he could discern, about 120 miles...
...once the courts have not been led astray by that ingeneous artifice known as criminal insanity, and have convicted a malefactor who well deserves it. The so-called Lone Wolf's plea of insanity has been rightfully denied, and the court has imposed a just sentence...
...There followed some remarks on the idea of a Western University run on Western methods in an Eastern country and upon the beauty but questionable utility of the Hebrew language with which the Earl professed himself unacquainted. The speech ended on a Balfourian note: a graceful, tactful, courageous plea for Arab goodwill and cooperation, recalling that, in the 10th Century, the Arab and the Jew had worked in harmony for "the illumination of Europe"?a reference to the Moorish invasions of Spain...
...Premier Lubomir Davidovitch, representing the majority (all except the Communist and Raditch parties) Opposition, made a bold plea for a strictly constitutional monarchy, national unity and local government-a bold plea because it directly opposed the Serbs, who regard Yugo-Slavia as Greater Serbia instead of a Union of the South Slavs. At present, the government is highly centralized and largely in the hands of the Serbs. He vigorously attacked the Government for its questionable election tactics and advocated "greater electoral freedom for the people." At the same time, he disassociated himself from those parties (Communist and Croatian Peasants...
...plea is for a change in the attitude towards studies and for the breaking down of the preeminence of the extra-curriculum activity. I believe that the extra-curriculum activity, as it does little more than restrict the undergraduate's outlook on life and fill him with empty conceit, fails to prepare him for the future. At present, the undergraduate condemns studies in his anxiety to become great in college. But which is more to be desired: fame in college, or fame in later life...