Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before any plan can be put to work, a basic reform is needed in the election to House committees. Today, like independent states, the Houses choose their representatives by whatever system happens to appeal to them. But if the House committees are to be a springboard for jumping into the main Council, home rule will have to give in, and a uniform and standardized system for handling the franchise substituted instead...
...darkest of the continents, is the greatest and the richest in mysterious meaning. These Frenchmen, traveling from Beirut to Pekin approximately along the route of Marco Polo, proceeds in business-like fashion, using powerful trucks with caterpillar treads in the rear, and yet they were ever sensitive to the appeal of the old and the unknown about them. There are moving shots of Oriental luxury and squalor as seen in Bagdad; then, as we penetrate deeper, there are wild, frenzied dances of the nomadic tribesmen; the ruined palace of the mighty Queen Zenobia; gaunt, starving Mongolians. The picture ends with...
...Daniel F. Keyes '37 defeated E. S. Underwood. A. F. Wordsworth of the Harvard Club overthrow Robert O. Easton '37, as W. R. Bascom trounced Peter F. Cunningham '39. Carl S. Oakman, Jr. '38 beat J. Cross. The crucial game of the match was the one between J. W. Appeal of the Harvard Club and Hendrik DcKruif '38. Appel won in three out of four...
...more than anything else to make lectures here the best-planned and most informative in the country. For when Yale and Chicago follow our lead to the microphone competition will have begun in earnest and America's oldest university will have the chance to show the world its real appeal...
...Last Puritan," soon to sell for $1.69 a copy at Liggett's. Those members of the faculty who find themselves unable to write, and shudder at the thought of President Conant's dictum: "Publish or Perish," should take new heart. They may soon discover that they have "radio appeal," and to them the future certainly belongs...