Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are only 36 game-fish nurseries in the country; and Mr. Hoover's plea, as sportsman and public servant, was that more nurseries be established by clubs, by individuals, by the Izaak Walton League and by the states, to rear to maturity the millions of tiny fry which the Department of Commerce furnishes free...
...keys of the Business School to President Lowell on Saturday, Mr. George F. Baker said the one essential thing: ". . . . it is not the outside of these buildings, but the standards of excellence that will have to be maintained in the work and training from the inside." To substantiate this plea Mr. Baker has presented the University with a million dollar endowment, to be used for salaries of the Business School Staff and the institution of an endowed professorship. Mr. William Ziegler Jr. has given an additional million for research in international relations. The future of the school appears aureate...
...Music, speaks more truth than he imagines when he says that "university courses should be lengthened to eight years for the increasing number of students who want to matriculate in jazz". With no satirical intention he has bequeathed his innocent journalistic palaver with an ironic note. His plea is for more vital trombonists: but he incidentally lays bare the anatomy of jazz...
...Abraham Myerson, Boston psychiatrist, said that Mr. Sacco's seven years of confinement had "brought about an abnormal state in which his [radical] fanaticism has been intensified into an obsession." In spite of Mr. Sacco's refusal to sign, the petition was presented as a joint plea from both the condemned...
This action on the part of Mr. Lowell is concrete evidence that the University refuses to adopt a purely defensive attitude and thereby shoulder the entire burden of guilt. The request demonstrates a relentless vigilance and a plea for impartiality; its sincerity is unquestionable and its motivation praiseworthy...