Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republic, but those who listened saw in their mind's eye the great Commander-in-Chief who, in 1914, had flung back the Russian armies from that same East Prussia which he was trying now to save again. German decorum kept secret the nature of the plea made by Old Paul von Hindenburg, but German patriotism made refusal-to the victor of Tannenburg* -impossible. Soon the joint cabinets issued a communique not only approving the experts' plan for direct financial relief to East Prussia but recommending further aid in the form of reduced taxes on East Prussian farms...
...Butler is right in his contention that the best teacher is the scholar of widest knowledge and appreciation, but it is disconcerting to have the president of a university which stands foremost in graduate enrollment so deprecate specialization. For he based his plea for endowments upon the great service to complex civilization that university trained men are doing. And certainly it is not the dilettante, however interesting he may be, who is making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception...
Although a plea of guilty is the only possible reply to the accusations, it must also be remembered that both ideas are, like the Japanese beetle, importations. Responsibility for the practise is shared among the three colleges named, but the responsibility for the invention itself lies with Oxford. And the grievousness of the error is measurable in terms of the importance of debating as one of the forces on youth...
...left Washington, Chairman Reid's committee settled down to consider less spectacular phenomena, such as spillways, crevasses, levees and the main channel of the largest U. S. river. The planning of a national program began with requests for local relief. Representative Hull of Illinois put in a plea for stronger levees around Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Others from southern Illinois asked that the gooseneck narrows in the Mississippi at Cairo be widened instead...
...that the Yale game has been played, the CRIMSON feels that some comment may be made on Mr. Hardwick's remarks at the Union. These, to be brief, were that the CRIMSON has not been "supporting" the football team. A plea of guilty will be the quickest way to answer the charge. The CRIMSON does not "support" the football team, any more than it "supports" the Harvard Dramatic Club, the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard Corporation, the Harvard Lampoon, or the Phillips Brooks House Association...