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...therefore, gentlemen, so far from pleading for my own sake, as one might expect, I plead for your sakes, that you may not offend about God's gift by condemning me. For if you put me to death, you will not easily find such another, really like something stuck on the state by the god, though it is rather laughable to say so; for the state is like a big thoroughbred horse, so big that he is a bit slow and heavy, and wants a gadfly to wake him up. I think the god put me on the state...
...told him frankly that, though he personally saw his country's future linked with the West, it would be very hard for Libya to refuse such aid, unless the West could offer to match it. While Ben Halim stalled off his answer, Tappin rushed off to Washington to plead for more...
...Beta Kappa & a Nobelman. A proud and portly man with a flair for oratory and a willingness to travel 25,000 miles a year to plead Howard's cause, Johnson has seen his budget swell from less than $956,000 to $5,658,500. His enrollment has climbed from 2,155 to 4,800; his faculty has nearly tripled to 442. He built a new library and a power plant, buildings for the School of Engineering and Architecture, the College of Dentistry and the College of Pharmacy. Five women's dormitories have gone up, as well...
...mission until 1948, when, in the midst of the Red conquest of China's mainland, the worried members met to consider whether or not they should disband. Lew Kay, 62, an American of Chinese parentage and the first Chinese graduate of the University of Washington (1909), rose to plead for going on. "Of course many fellow Americans find it difficult to grasp what is happening in China today," he said. "All the more reason why we, who know the importance of free China, should keep up our work. To abandon it is to abandon our own conscience." He paused...
Quality Control. In El Paso, Charles Steen refused to plead guilty to having stolen a mere Cadillac, had the charge changed to read "Cadillac Coupe de Ville," explained that he never bothered with anything but the best...