Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speculation is rife in Cambridge concerning the constitution of the Sex Viri. This is a special university court, which can adjudicate in cases where graduates and University officers are charged with breaches of university discipline or with grave misconduct and also act as a Court of Appeal respecting the decisions of the General Board of the University. It has power to deprive graduates of their degrees, titles of degrees, or offices...
...virtue of "Gulliver's Travels" other than its satire, the meticulous portrayal of doll-house miniatures, is also retained in the picture for its universal appeal. There is an incredible technical skill in the way the tiny putty figures are handled. And the grotesque gesticulations and grimaces with which they express themselves, besides being an artistic triumph in caricature, are powerful agents in satirizing a capitalistic lust and craftiness...
...trigger was Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's potent Secretary of Health. Last week she rushed a squad of public health inspectors to York. Surgeon General Cummings,* hearing of the trouble, promised Federal help to Governor Earle who telegraphed C. F. Obermeier, manager of the factory: "I appeal to your sense of public spirit and your regard for public health and welfare to shut down the plant." Flabbergasted, Mr. Obermeier communicated with General Electric officials at their Schenectady, N. Y. headquarters, got orders to close his plant until more ventilators could be installed...
...though profits were pretty slim in the middle of Depression. A large part of the profits have been ploughed back, and a 50% stock dividend was paid in 1934. That year Iron Fireman introduced a model which put coal on nearly an even footing with the automatic appeal of oil or gas, since the coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition...
...growing remarkably cynical toward two prime phases of U. S. life-business and politics. For months the fastest-selling non-card game in the U. S. has been Monopoly. Full of real estate, utilities, railroads, mortgages, foreclosures, rents, taxes, maintenance, assessments, it is a parlor pastime generally calculated to appeal to the baldest acquisitive instincts. Monopoly boomed through the Christmas season, was last week selling faster than ever...