Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision ended the Harvard Youth for Democracy's 90-day wait for a definite faculty ruling and drew an immediate statement from Geoffrey W. White '48, editor of the magazine, to the effect that an appeal, presumably to Provost Buck as Dean of the Faculty, would be made within the next week...
...feel that the refusal of the University to recognize The New Student is a clear violation of academic freedom and the NSA bill of rights," the statement continued. "We shall appeal this decision which we regard as a subversion of the liberal tradition of the University and a threat to the rights of Harvard students. We hope that the (next) issue of The New Student will be published in name as well as in fact...
Thse opportunities are never overplayed, however, and therein lies the virtue and the appeal of this film. It is a story of little people, faced with a big threat to their usually placid existence, and it is handled accordingly--without melodrama or bombast. There is no etching of characters and situations in black and white--each person emerges as an individual, and even the German soldier is a human being rather thn a symbol of evil...
...bumbling Tom Stewart had little appeal at the polls. The only notable thing he had ever done was to prosecute John T. Scopes in Tennessee's famed monkey trial, back in 1925. Even with the full power of the Crump machine behind him, he barely managed to get himself sent to Washington, first in 1938 (when he ran for an unexpired term) and again...
Butcher Club. A new moneymaking trick with all the appeal of a chain letter was being tried out by many a U.S. meat market. To spur sales, nipped by high prices, retailers were selling at wholesale prices. They made their profit by charging customers a weekly fee for the privilege of wholesale buying. Butchers were making enough on the fees to pass on savings of as much as 25% to customers...