Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in London, Lawyer Clarence Darrow, speaking mainly about the small influence of heredity in crime, also made an appeal on behalf of morons. Said...
...third hospital campaign currently going on in Manhattan is for $5,000,000 for the New York Skin & Cancer Hospital, oldest of its kind in the U. S. Money collector is the Fiscal Service Corp., the professional group of appeal-makers which obtained for Amelia Earhart her money to fly across the Atlantic with Wilmer Stultz last year...
...commercial order determined by physical science and obscuring for many the idea of a living God, while psychologists are putting forward insight into human behavior as the basis of a code of conduct instead of the principles derived from religion. "What manner of church is it that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing them into constant protest against the present sub-Christian...
...produce college graduates, he suggests nothing to basically upset present programs. Instead, he goes to the heart of the educational body--the men who teach. And when he suggests the use of the vast funds available for education directly towards raising the standard of these men he makes an appeal to all who place the everyday, human element first...
...solution is ingenious, will appeal to those who like a blend of mystery and mechanics. The technically expert setting shows the interior of one of Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit cars which whizzes past lights and stations. Co-Playwrights Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison have contrived an exciting addition to the season's many slaughters...