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Word: plea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Procurement. The Senators also listened to Symington's plea to hurry up. The time between appropriating the money for airplanes and getting them in operation is a critical factor in any preparedness program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The People's Strategists | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...faraway Lake Success, what Sheik Yaseen called "foreign interference" was on the agenda again. The 57-nation U.N. General Assembly would meet in emergency session this week in another attempt to solve the Palestine problem. But neither Jews nor Arabs had yet accepted the U.S.-sponsored plea for a Palestine truce. Without a truce, the temporary U.N. trusteeship proposed by the U.S. (and opposed by both Jews and Arabs) would be just as hard to enforce as partition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: War for the Jerusalem Road | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Council set tentative plans for its summer extension after a plea from Albert Goldsmith, 7G, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who asked orientation aid for foreign students arriving here early...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Cuts Agenda Of Joint Council | 4/15/1948 | See Source »

...Religion at Radcliffe," dividing everyone into four types, the most interesting of which is the "fast-moving social clique," where "religion is conspicuous by its absence." Nancy Sadler's article is more intelligent but no less glib in its assumptions; but far from being an analysis, it is a plea for religion that involves the setting up of her own psycho-philosophical system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Is Bright Spot in Latest Signature | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...result of these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite which the priesthood performed for the laity, rather than with it. The congregation came to look, rather than to participate. "Heave it higher, Sir Priest!" was the plea of the medieval layman when he could not see the Host at the consecration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bread & the Cup | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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