Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall, seconded by the Editor, makes a plea for the preservation of Harvard as it is today which he confesses to be based chiefly on sentiment. He carries the House Plan into the future, trying to look beyond the range of current prophecies, and perceiyes a Harvard cut up into autonomous units, a College no longer existant even in name, and above all a desecrated Yard. It is this last calamity that seems above all others to arouse Mr. Hall's apprehension. "The Yard, our only shrine, will be obliterated" is the constant burden of his opposition. One feels tempted...
...lapse. She takes on a struggling scrivener, her second affair, and leaves her husband when that entity softly reminds her that after all, he is her husband, and won't she have dinner with him? For four months she lives with the scrivener, despite the plea of her now thrice-wed mother, who begs Ellen not to tramp the path of dalliance. Ellen is on the verge of another affair just as she learns that her mother, running off from Husband III, has killed herself. On hearing the news Ellen screams, "Isn't she priceless?" But the effect...
...report "deplores any attempt to build houses beyond McKinlock Hall on the river front." With these considerations in mind, the locality most favorable for the new houses is plainly that confined within the proposed boundaries of the second Yard. "A comprehensive plan of development" for this area is the plea of the Student Council, and the basic wisdom of such a plan warrants careful consideration of its practicability...
Today it is not enough that Italian fathers are responding potently to the Dictator's plea for better, faster begetting (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante). It is not even enough that Italy now leads all Europe in surplus of births over deaths.* Brushing such trifling achievements aside, young, ardent Editor Carli continued, last week, his slashing indictment of barren thin ladies, set a relentless quota...
...Compulsion. Inasmuch as virtually all modern wars are theoretically wars of self-defense, the question immediately arose as to what would prevent a war between two nations, each going to battle under a self-defense plea. Senator Borah admitted that the treaty in no way prevented such a possibility. "A nation must answer to the tribunal of public opinion as to her right to go to war," said he. "The only censor of her action is the power of public opinion...