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Word: plight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent letter to the New York Times, Karpovich and Alexander Kerensky, called for a general recognition by the American people of the plight of Russian emigres, and released an appeal which they had received from a group of refugees now in Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Emigre Rights Urged By Karpovich | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...elbows end. As vice-president in charge of small loans, March finds it difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic parents and girlfriend have only pity for his plight. Andrews runs into trouble--with a floozy boomtown bride, with his soda-jerk job, and with March's young daughter, played by Teresa Wright, with whom he falls in love. All this adds up to considerable difficulty, and it takes Goldwyn & Co. exactly 163 minutes of screen time to wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...readers were so taken by Mrs. Hunkle's foodless plight and her generosity that they sent her 400 pounds of eatables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Coo! Said Mrs. Hunkle | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Indicative of the increasing concern of Americans over the plight of the homeless Jewish people of Europe is the growth of the Harvard Zionist Group within six months from a handful of students to a well-knit organization of over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zionist Group Grows In Six Months; Backs Palestine; Autonomy | 12/18/1946 | See Source »

...plight of the smaller organizations-the Red Book, the Album, and dozens of other groups of similar size-is no better. The Student Council, probing the matter, is finding out what too many people have known for too long: there is no office space, no convenient meeting place, in short, no facilities at all to be had within the University. As a result, the smaller organizations presently scrape out bare existences, scurrying from Junior Common Room to Junior Common Room, and carrying on their office work in somebody-or-other's overcrowded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S.R.O.? | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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