Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, even the ignorant monks had been taught by tradition to regard this particular manuscript as the most prized possession of their library, which is a storehouse of antiquities. Tischendorf "borrowed" the book from the monks, on the plea that his health required him to work in the warmer climate of Cairo. I have seen the receipt that he gave the monastery...
...more petition added to this year's already heavy crop sets forth a humble plea for longer vacations at Christmas and attempts to offer some reason for so pleading. Aside from the fact that Princeton, Yale and North Central High all have holidays of two weeks or more at this period it might well be wise at this point for the powers that be to look somewhat more carefully into this question which for the first time in some years has aroused sufficient student interest to bring forth a petition...
They waited a whole hour. True, Carpenter Ignatz Westenkirchner during the War fought as a private in the squad of onetime Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. True, when Ignatz and his family were stranded in Reading, Pa. the Chancellor replied to their plea for help by sending enough money to put Ignatz, Ignatz Jr., Frau Westenkirchner and their apple-cheeked daughters aboard the S. S. Hamburg (third class) for Germany (TIME, Jan. 1). But in the bustling Chancellery who was going to tell Adolf about Ignatz? Suddenly to their rescue went tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, psychic friend of the Chancellor...
With the approach of the reading period, discussion is once again raised with regard to the opening of Widener during the evenings. Although as in the past the plea comes from the entire University, at this time of year it comes more especially from Seniors, graduate students, and research students...
...Chicago, Edward Weiss, on trial for complicity in torturing Theodore Zutaut to death, begged his attorney to change his plea to guilty in exchange for a sentence of 14 years in prison, was interrupted by the return of the jury with a verdict of acquittal...