Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major changes. This will present two catch-all drives, instead of the present system of one big drive in the fall and sporadic individual charities later in the year. The new arrangement will suffer from the lack of incentive in a second Council drive compared to the special appeal that was successful for the World Student Service Fund and the displaced persons. But it is hoped that allowing the student to divide his contribution during the year will increase the total amount...
...speed horse. He naturally bounces along at top speed unless he is restrained. Because of his terrific speed, cautious Ben Jones insists that Coaltown wear a quarter-inch pad of piano felt between hoof and shoe?just in case his feet start stinging. Coaltown, who has more crowd-appeal than Citation, at Florida's Hialeah Park last winter equaled the world record for a mile-and-an-eighth (1 :47 3/5). Then at Gulfstream Park, under a tight hold, he equaled the mile-and-a-quarter record...
...result, a San Francisco dowager harrumphed to a clerk: "If I had a million dollars, I'd give it all to restore Gump's as it was." Gump's would have politely turned her down; what it had lost in atmosphere it had gained in sales appeal. By regrouping its Oriental collection in informal rooms with movable display cases, Gump's hoped to sell twice as much...
...some speculation about the reasons for the science-fiction fad. The Saturday Review of Literature's Harrison Smith has speculated about the relation of the "age of anxiety" to the "scientific fantasy story" as "a buffer against known and more conceivable terrors." Publishers' Weekly finds that the appeal of these stories lies "in their free flight of [imagination] . . . uninhibited by present reality, yet sometimes terrifyingly close to the advanced discoveries of modern science...
...When a man is turned down for security reasons, he has a legal right to a hearing and appeal," Edelman said last night. "No one ever told me that I was rejected because of this. That's what caused all the trouble...