Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S MARCH 3 STORY ON CHINA . . . NANKING EMBASSY AUTHORITIES WISH TO DENY YOUR WASHINGTON HEARSAY. THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO BUMBLE OR ERROR BY ANY NANKING EMBASSY CLERK IN TRANSMISSION OF UNRRA DEPUTY DIRECTOR JACKSON'S CABLE ON CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S PLEA FOR MORE COTTON AND CEREALS. IF WASHINGTON HEARD THE CONTRARY, WASHINGTON DIDN'T HEAR RIGHT...
Playwright Gould tries his darndest-occasionally with a serious plea for his warriors' peacetime welfare-clamorously, continuously, with goofiness and gags. But for some reason Tenting Tonight isn't very funny even at the rare moments when it should...
...current This Week, F.P.A., the mournful wit of Information Please, anc an old Horatian of parts, made a plea for "the so-called dead language." Wrote he: "To say that one is going to 'use' Latin in one's daily life is nonsense. . . . But it seems to me there is too little education for its own sake. I do believe that if a boy wants to become a banker, he should emphasize such subjects as economics. . . . I also believe , . . that the so-called 'useless' things-Latin, for example-will help...
...medical schools' plea was backed up last week by the keeper of one of the chief U.S. medical moneybags-Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. In his annual report, Fosdick observed that medicine's philanthropists have been giving too much of their money for "magic-wand" research, too little for training physicians. Said he: "We cannot grow orchids in a greenhouse that lacks coal...
Author Shute has projected a heavyweight plea in a lightweight novel. The plot is embarrassingly slight: wounded Veteran John Turner, back at his job as a London salesman, is told by his surgeon that he has but a year to live. He is determined, before he dies, to look up three hospital buddies who were kind to him: a British pilot, a British paratrooper, an American Negro G.I. In Burma, he finds the pilot (who had once objected to having the Negro in the same hospital room), happily married to a Burmese girl. The paratrooper (who had beaten a murder...