Word: pled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it (the Irish Free State) is the "successor" of the Irish Republic. The dispute grew strong, because Eamon de Valera was present early in the trial with counsel to argue that the money should be turned over to himself and followers who collected it. Each side "with clamour" pled the laws...
...rains returned, the rivers rose again, and the dikes and bridges, barns, houses and fields of grain in fat Czecho-Slovakia and lower Hungary continued to be inundated and swept away during a fourth week of natural catastrophe (TIME, July 19, INTERNATIONAL). Farmers pled piteously with their governments to "do something." Peasants cursed and blamed the ill-omened new radio stations. Governments lamented, spoke dolefully of sunspots as the cause of disastrous weather. Afflicted mankind was miserable...
More potent than the vow he pled...
...purchased by Mme. Frances Alda, my wife. Attorneys said that several bills had been sent to me, that I ignored them." George B. Cutten, President of Colgate University: "In Utica, I drove Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick to the train, was arrested, charged with driving 40 miles an hour. I pled not guilty, demanded trial. Reports said that I, if convicted, would have to serve from one to five days in jail...
International Language. A new international language was urged by several philologists, who met in a section of their own for the first time. Dr. J. W. Hamilton, of St. Paul, Minn., pled for "Cosmo English," a sort of secondary language to be used only for international communication, which would in no way interfere with existing English...