Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Webster, the "reader." They were held for the Grand Jury in $2,000 bail each as material witnesses. Bond for both women was furnished by John Lampkin, son of the deceased, who said he would have called a physician had he realized the seriousness of his mother's plight...
Heard Bishop Nuelson of Zurich, Switzerland, on the desperate plight of Europe and the danger to Protestant...
...Plight of Russia...
...comparatively, the university is a free agent. It sets the standards and consequently bears the responsibility of keeping the standard as high as average human intelligence permits,--or perhaps even a little higher. Future generations may bemoan their sad plight of being born into a world a whole C ahead of their ancestors' but the natural result of the raising of university requirements will inevitably be the tightening up of secondary school requirements and a boosting all along the line of a sagging elementary school system With this done, college work in spite of increased vigor will probably be less...
There seems scarcely a loop-hole out of the pitiful plight in which England finds herself. In the midst of such vigor Malthus offers no, remedy. There are possibilities in Swift's old cure for the starvation in Ireland. And yet it is only too probable that the English population would continue to recreate itself like the hydra-headed monster. To adopt the fatalistic attitude and let nature take its course would doubtless lead in a short time to such swarms that all Britain would be a vast human sardine-can. Yet there is a gleam of hope like...